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...FOURTH MYSTERY BOOK-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Six mystery novellas by such practiced hands as Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mignon Eberhart, Hugh Pentecost, and one newcomer, Dana Lyon, who turns in the best item, I'll Be Glad When You're Dead. An omnibus book that is right up to its predecessors in quality and quantity...
Veni, Vidi, Vici. Bernard Montgomery was the hero of Britain last week. He was the man who, for the first time in World War II, had routed a German Army. He is an austere man, the son of a bishop and the grandson of Dean F. W. Farrar, who wrote a life of Christ. An Ulsterman, born in County Donegal, he was marked for the clergy. He went into the Army, but the mark of his religious upbringing is still deep in him. His hero is Oliver Cromwell, who also smote his enemies and praised God. At Dunkirk Bernard Montgomery...
Sopranos Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden, Grace Moore; Violinists Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz...
...OTHER HORSEMAN-Philip Wylie -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). The old story from which Philip Wylie gets his title is better than the story he tells. The old story: There was a fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, who galloped ahead of the others to warn people that they were coming. Realizing as he returned through a devastated world that nobody had heeded his warning, he became so disgusted that he joined the other Four Horsemen in destroying what was left of human life. The Fifth Horseman's name: Reality...
BLACK ORCHIDS-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nero Wolfe and his ebullient amanuensis Archie Goodwin are here at top form in two "novellas" -"Black Orchids" and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death." The first concerns a cleverly contrived murder at New York's annual Flower Show. The second features an adroit bit of poisoning in the fantastic Riverdale ménage- and menagerie-of a successful party-arranger for Manhattan society. First-class entertainment...