Evening star., 1938-05-01

Novels.
DOCTOR ROGERS ORDEAL. BY
Homer Avera. New York: John
H. Hopkins Co.
Story of surgeon in Civil War.
Mediocre.
WHEREVER CHOOSE. BY Eleanor
Blake. New York: G. P. Put
nam's Sons.
Story of woman in Zone fears)
search of love- The bunk.
MANS. COURAGE. BY Joseph vogel.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Story of Polish immigrant family
trying to get along during the de-
preston. Average.
AFTER MIDNIGHT. BY Irmgard
Keun Translated from the Ger
man by James Cleugh. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf.
A novel Of Nazi Germany, conven-
tionally depressing.
RUN MASKED. BY Robb White.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf
White men and women wear off
their inhibitions by watching a carni-
val Of natives in Caribbean island.
That sort of thing.
NO STORK AT NINE BY John
Klempner. New York Charles
Scribner's Sons.
Love story of married couple. In
telligent, though that is not the GUS
tom among books on this very we'll
worn theme.
THE STRANGE WOMAN. BY Sarah
Elizabeth Rodger. Philadelphia: J.
B. Lippincott Co. ..
Romantic trash about debutante
and how she loved one and only one
and all that.
STRUMPET WIND. BY Gertrude Bos-
worth Crum. New York: Covici
Friede.
Story Of uneducated woman whose
life is ruined by the harsh environ
ment IN which it is set Intelligent.
CAROLINE ENGLAND. BY Noel
Streatfield. New York: Reynal &
Hitchcock.
Story Of three generations Of Eng
lish county family told through one
woman's life. Worthy.
AN INFAMOUS ARMY. BY Georgette
Heyer. Garden City: Doubleday
Doran
Romance about the battle of Water
loo. Average historical stuff.
YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL. BY Lewis
Cox. New York: Hillman Curl.
Girl with two suitors. Trash.
EACH ONE WAS ALONE. BY Donald
Barr Chidsey. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf.
Five strangers, each with problem,
are stranded on little island. And
there you are. Average for its type.
LET'S CALL IT LOVE. BY sabra Lee
Corbin. New York: Hillman Curl.
Call it anything you want, It's still
bunk.
GOSSIP. BY Anne Duffield. New
York: Hillman Curl
Rich gal suddenly poor earns liv-
ing by being social secretary. More
bunk.
BURMESE SILVER. BY Edward
Thompson. New York: E. P. Dut-
ton Co.
Adventure tale OF pre-war Burma.
All right. for what it is.
THREE MEN IN HER LIFE. BY
Barry Caldwell. New York: God
win Publishers
What it sounds like-and bunk.
DEADLINE FOR LOVERS. BY Fan
Nichols. New York: Goodwin Pub
fishers.
Triangle stuff. Bunk.
THE YOUNG PRINCE. BY A. Ham
ilton Gibbs. Philadelphia: j. B.
Lippincott Co.
Satirical story Of young monarch
in love with charming commoner,
and the manner in which the prince
disposed of the interference of the
prime minister. Derivation tolerably
| obvious.
OF MICE AND MEN. BY John Stein
beck,
The old best-seller Now in the
popular binding. The original story
| not the dramatic version.
DANES DON'T CARE. BY Peter
Cheyney. New York: Coward
McCann.
A Oman gets his woman. The
story is of the humorous" variety,
with the humor resting on bad gram
mar and worse English. Pretty sad.
| Mysteries.
MURDER IN SILK. BY Mike Tea
gle. New York: Hillman Curl.
A man found dead in the women,s
washroom of Long Island Railroad
train. Good, -- .... .
GRABBED IN MURDER. BY Rudd
Fleming. New York: Simon q
Schuster.
| Crime in an old decadent Southern
family. Average good.
OUT OF THE NIGHT. BY Marion
| White. New York: M. s. Mill Co.
A lady lawyer turns sleuth to save
the man she loves. $3.50.
MURDER CALLS DIR. HALEY. BY
Anthony Wynne. Philadelphia: ].
B. Lppincott. ...-.
| Murder in small European coun-
try-Graustark, as 1t were, but now
with q dictator. Average.
THE AFFAIR OF THE GINGER
LEI. BY Clifford Knight. New
| York: Dodd-Mead b Co.
Murder IA sailing ships, out Hawaii
way. oood