Books: Books of the Year

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*THE LIFE OF J. M. W. TURNER, R. A. —A. J. Finberg—Oxford ($10).

Phaidon Press Art Books, Oxford: RODIN ($3); RUBENS ($2.50); MASTERPIECES OF EUROPEAN PAINTING IN AMERICA ($3).

General

JOURNEY TO A WAR—W. H. Auden & Christopher Isherwood — Random House ($3).

THE NOVEL AND THE MODERN WORLD— David Daiches—University of Chicago ($2.50).

THE END OF ECONOMIC MAN—Peter F. Drucker—John Day ($2.50).

*MOSES AND MONOTHEISM—Sigmund Freud—Knopf ($3).

*MEIN KAMPF—Adolf Hitler—Reynal & Hitchcock ($3).*

AMERICAN JAZZ MUSIC—Wilder Hobson—Norton ($2.50).

IN STALIN'S SECRET SERVICE—W. G. Krivitsky—Harper ($3).

THE AMERICAN DRAMA SINCE 1918—Joseph Wood Krufch—Random House ($2.50).

ACCENT ON POWER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MACHIAVELLI—Valeriu Marcu—Farrar & Rinehart ($3).

*MARXISM: AN AUTOPSY—Henry Barnford Parkes—Houghton Mifflin ($3).

WIND, SAND AND STARS—Antoine de Saint Exupéry—Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.75).

JAZZ, HOT & HYBRID—Withrop Sargeant—Arrow Editions ($5).

AMERICA AT THE MOVIES—Margaret Thorp—Yale ($2 75).

SAN FRANCISCO'S LITERARY FRONTIER—Franklin Walker—Knopf ($5).

JUVENILES Ages Four to Eight

MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL—Virginia Lee Burton — Houghton Mifflin ($1.50).

*THE STORY OF HORACE—Alice M. Coats—Coward McCann ($1.75).

WELL, ABOUT THE PENGUIN—Price Day —Simon & Schuster (75¢).

WALT DISNEY'S PINOCCHIO—Random House ($1).

WALT DISNEY'S THE UGLY DUCKLING—Lippincott ($1).

THE GAY A B C — Françoise — Scribner ($1.50).

LITTLE TOOT — Hardie Gramatky—Putnam ($1.50).

FARAWAY MEADOW—Thomas Handforth—Doubleday, Doran ($2).

WILLIAM WIGGLEWHISTLE—Anne Heyneman—Scribner ($1.50).

FAIR PLAY — Munro Leaf — Stokes ($1.50).

WACKY THE SMALL BOY—Fred Schwed Jr.—Simon & Schuster ($1.50).

ADVENTURES OF THE LITTLE WOODEN HORSE—Ursula Moray Williams—Lippincott ($1.50).

AGES TEN TO FOURTEEN

KANGUK: A BOY OF BERING STRAIT—As told to William AIbee—Little, Brown ($2).

GOLDEN GATE—Valenti Angela—Viking ($2).

MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS—Richard & Florence Atwater — Little, Brown ($1.50)

DANIEL BOONE—James Dougherty—Viking ($2.50).

ABRAHAM LINCOLN—Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire — Doubleday, Doran ($2).

COLUMBUS SAILS—C. Walter Hodges —Coward-McCann ($2.75).

*Of these, TIME marks with asterisks 16 books which are already classics or stand a chance of retaining eminence whether easily readable or not. *Of future value to historians and psychologists.

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