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HANDS-Charles G. Norris-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Three generations in a San Francisco family, retelling the stock melodramatic situation of a man who married his cousin only to discover that, because of his father's sins, he had actually married his sister...
...GINKGO TREE ? Cora Jarrett ? Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A gothic tale of the struggle of a son and his malignant father, by the author of Night Over Pitch's Pond...
SOUTH - Frederick Wight - Farrar & Rinehart...
Recently members of the William & Mary chapter, curious about the smudged minutes, sent them to Bert C. Farrar, a U. S. Treasury expert in Washington whose job is to read illegible documents. Using a powerful camera, hawk-eyed Expert Farrar last week deciphered this passage: "For the better distinction of the fraternity between themselves, in any foreign country or place, it is resolved that a salutation of the clasp of the hands, together with an immediate stroke across the mouth with the back of the same hand, and a return [salute] with the hand [?] used by the saluted, be hereby...
...banned as "detrimental to public peace" three of the best modern U. S. books on Japan, all written by authors who strive to be objective and praise Japan quite as often as they damn her. Excerpts from the books banned: Challenge: Behind the Face of Japan by Upton Close (Farrar & Rinehart, $3): "Perhaps the most amusing of Japan's new industries is the reproduction of old American heirlooms-New England furniture and such. ... It is as hard for our diplomats to converse with the Japanese foreign office as for a man to argue with a woman...