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Like her autobiography, Masks was aimed nowhere in particular but hits the shopgirl public right under the fifth rib. Even Publisher Button describes the story as "pure romance." If Masks had been published anonymously, readers could have deduced that its author had led a sheltered life but had not been sufficiently protected from far-fetched fiction of the baser sort. Rewritten into cinemantics, it might be palmed off as Art, but it would need a Garbo to complete the illusion...
...Fiction A BOOK HUNTER'S HOLIDAY-A. S. W. Rosenbach-Honghton Mifflin ($4). Rich, rosy-cheeked Bibliophile Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach writes in a breezy after-dinner way on the romantic sidelights of book collecting in general, his own famed collection in particular, including such bargains as the Button Gwinnett letter at $51,000, five pages of the Pickwick Papers...
...FLOWERING OF NEW ENGLAND- Van Wyck Brooks-Button...
Instantly the Speaker touches a button, adjourns the Commons session before Mr. Churchill can speak. He snaps a bitterly sarcastic complaint at the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancashire. Sir John Davidson, who snarls back: "It is remarkable how much you as a private member seem to know about the wishes of the King...
FROM ALLEY POND TO ROCKEFELLER CENTER-Henry Collins Brown-Button ($3.50). Mildly amusing historical hodge-podge pointing out the landmarks and retelling the legends of the five boroughs of New York City by the author of Bromistone Fronts and Saratoga Trunks...