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WINNER TAKE NOTHING-Ernest Hem-ingway-Scribner...
...Gambler, The Nun, And The Radio," which appeared in Scribner's Magazine last spring, is an asset to this collection. It commences in a mad vein but turns rapidly into a dud when the author gets the inspiration toward the end to take several of the characters seriously. This lapse, however, is excusable. Gaetano, the gambler, is an unusual character; Sister Cecilia is the practical nun who prays for Notre Dame in the big game. There is no plot, there are few situations; its virtues may only be ascribed to Mr. Hemingway's consummate technique of making something from nothing...
...DRAGON MURDER CASE-S. S. Van Dine-Scribner ($2). Philo Vance is this time erudite on tropical fish, and very up-to-date mechanically on the dragon footprints littering the bottom of the swimming pool...
...MORE RIVER-John Galsworthy- Scribner...
Though the late good John Galsworthy has been dead nearly a year, this posthumous novel, says Publisher Scribner, was finished six months before his death (in January 1933). One More River winds up the Charwell (pronounced Cherrell) saga neatly enough, though Author Galsworthy had the serial habit too strongly not to leave a few threads dangling. Better than its two predecessors (Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness), it should remind even impatient critics of Galsworthy that, in the words of one of his characters, "he may be an old buffer, but he's a nice...