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THREE DIED BESIDE THE MARBLE POOL -Carl M. Chapin-Crime Club ($2). Well-written, closely reasoned yarn about a deaf hero's exploits in untangling a skein of gory complexities with the aid of teletype and microphone...
...confirmed and thorough reader of TIME, I want to congratulate you on your well-written article on Japanese sumo [TIME, Feb. 10]. For Americans not acquainted with Japanese sports and customs you did an admirable job of writing the article including the proper spelling and usage of the Japanese words...
...BALCONY - Adrian Bell - Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Minor-keyed, well-written story of English childhood; easier to take than Proust but not nearly so effective...
...VALLEY?Nathan Asch?Macmillan ($2.50). Collection of well-written sketches laid in a run-down Connecticut farming region where old settlers, immigrants, New York artists and wealthy suburbanites come together...
...gallery of overemotional farmers in a book of short stories, written in the cadenced prose of her first novel. Long descriptions of rural sights and smells alternate with obscure adolescent fits of temper and weeping. Most of Josephine Johnson's farm tales are no more than well-written, undergraduate, descriptive essays, but in the best of them the real torments of hard times and hunger seem to struggle to escape the strait jacket of her fluent and mannered prose. Among the 22 stories in Winter Orchard...