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...their Oxford don father who admonished them that "you can't lay the flattery and gratitude on too thick-they love it." After a year in Canada and the U. S. the children couldn't stand it any longer, authored a book entitled Thank You Twice (Harcourt, Brace; $1). This time they heeded the admonition of their publisher to "pull no punches," said precisely what they thought...
MAIGRET KEEPS A RENDEZVOUS-Georges Simenon-Harcourt ($2). Two first-class exploits of phlegmatic French Detective Maigret: One is the case of a Breton sea captain, slain after a frenzied voyage, which Maigret closes on an extra-legal note; the other a rural tragedy, involving the death of an elderly countess by induced shock. Translation not so smooth as earlier Simenon but both tales have brilliant workmanship...
...Harcourt, Brace has become the U.S. distributor for the untrammeled books in German of Bermann-Fischer Verlag, now mostly printed in Sweden, which reach the U.S. by devious and precarious routes. It was husky, sunburned...
...THESE BONES LIVE-Edward Dahlberg-Harcourt, Brace ($3). A violent blowtorch of poetic anarchy, turned on U.S. literature and such related subjects as the State, materialism, sex, war, tradition, human docility. At its worst it verges on literary hysteria; at its best it has rare eloquence, insight and daring. The book will either bore or infuriate any average law-abider...
GERMANY PREPARES FOR WAR -Ewald Banse - Harcourt, Brace ($3). Re-issue of German Military Science Professor Banse's blueprint for World War II, first published in 1932 when it was called "senseless babblings...