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First publisher to take advantage of the price-fixing provisions of New York State's Fair Trade Act since it was declared constitutional in a judicial flip-flop last month (TIME, March 22) was Macmillan Co., which last week fixed the price of Novelist Margaret Mitchell's gusty Gone With The Wind at $3. Reason: the book which has sold at the rate of 3¼, copies per minute since it was published last June has been a favorite object of price wars between Manhattan department stores.* Swept back to Macmillan next day like autumn leaves were...
SUNS Go DOWN-Flannery Lewis- Macmillan ($2). Excellent characterization, recalling the tender humor of Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, of the author's doughty, imaginative, 90-year-old grandmother, "the first decent white woman in the Comstock District." A vivid piece of Americana covering the era of Virginia City, Nev., from its fabulous boom days of 40,000 families to its present ghostly desertion...
British Toxicologist C. J. S. Thompson, honorary curator of the historical section of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons and author of The Mystery and Lore of Monsters (Macmillan, 1931) takes the Bible's version of Goliath's height, computes it at "about...
...WASN'T A NIGHTMARE-L. F. Hay- Macmillan ($2). A middle-aged English novelist and his ward uncover the black doings of a Balkans munitions-maker; a first book by a veteran British secret agent whose fictive boiling point is lower than Oppenheim...
AFTERMATH-Sir James George Frazer -Macmillan ($3). Supplementary volume to The Golden Bough, classic collection of primitive customs, beliefs...