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THEY WALK IN DARKNESS-Ellen C. Philtine-Liveright ($2.50). In New York's fictional Farland State Hospital for the insane, a young doctor and his artist wife find disillusionment in the venality of staff doctors and mistreatment of patients. Dickensian revelations that will inevitably recall the shocking conditions uncovered by Governor Dewey's investigations...
...ITALIAN TRAGEDY - Nicola Cu-ringa - Liveright ($2.50). The grim realities of a humble and emotional people engulf Peasant Giacomo as he returns from America to the poverty of his home in Italy during World War I. Clumsily told but rich in detail...
...JOURNAL OF MADAME GIOVANNI-Alexandra Dumas-Liveright...
Publisher Horace Liveright guided Ilka somewhat through England. She "never liked Horace much-he was rude to waiters"-but he took her to see George (Confessions of a Young Man) Moore, who unexpectedly pinched her behind. Somewhat encouraged, Ilka ventured to ask the fiercely conceited Master what he thought of Conrad. "I don't know, my child," said Moore testily, "I can't read Polish...
THOSE TORN FROM EARTH-Frederick Hollander-Liveright ($2.50). An exceedingly likable story about some comparatively lucky German emigres, artists and entertainers in Paris, London, Tel-Aviv, Hollywood. Author Hollander does the unheard-of thing in a refugee story of making much of his action cheerful, even funny, and gets away with...