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...GEORGE WASHINGTON, THE HUMAN BEING & THE HERO, 1732-1762-Rupert Hughes -William Morrow & Co. ($4). GEORGE WASHINGTON : THE IMAGE AND THE MAN-W. E. Woodward- Boni & Liveright...
...SINGING CROW-Nathalia Crane-A. & C. Boni ($2). A dreadful eventuality has not yet come to pass-the growing up of Miss Nathalia Crane. Her songs are still those of a little Brooklyn girl for whom hydrants must be gnomes and subway trains coffin worms. Nor has anyone yet dismally and satisfactorily explained the marvelous process by which a slender chit-she is only 13 now- became possessed of the divine afflatus, plus a vocabulary that would give nightmares to a lexicographer...
...HARD-BOILED VIRGIN - Frances Newman - Boni & Liveright ($2.50). A sophisticated Southern aristocrat learns about herself...
...CHANGING EAST - J. A. Spender - Stokes ($3.00). 8 AN OUTLINE HISTORY OF CHINA - Herbert H. Gowen and Josef Washington Hall -Appleton ($4.00). 9 India- Sir Valentine Chirol - Scribner's ($3.00). 10 Asia - Herbert H. Gowen - Little, Brown ($3.50). 11 THE WHISPERING GALLERY - "An Ex-Diplomat" - Boni & Liveright ($3.00). John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd., the London publishers, have withdrawn the book and caused the arrest on a charge of fraud of one Hesketh Pearson who sold them the manuscript and assured them that it is by Sir Rennel Rodd, onetime (1908-1919) British Ambassador to Italy, who has denied...
CREWE TRAIN-Rose Macaulay -Boni & Liveright ($2). The title simply means, from a British catchphrase, "wrong train." Denham Dobie, daughter of a peace-loving British cleric, grows up barefoot in a remote Spanish hamlet with a native stepmother and half-breed half-sisters. Her father dies. Her aunt, the Elinor Glynnish wife of a smart London publisher, "rescues" the reluctant orphan, who makes no head nor tail of her relatives' civilized occupations: incessantly scribbling books or about books, doing things they dislike because others do them, concerning themselves with every one's private affairs, eternally gibbling, gabbling. Give...