Word: duttons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GREEN MOUNTAINS TO SIERRAS-Zephine Humphrey-Dutton ($2.50). This record of the transcontinental motor tour of a Vermont painter and his wife makes pleasant reading, except for an occasional lapse into coyness. The Humphreys traveled for the winter on the price of their usual coal supply...
CLANSMEN - Ethel Boileau - Dutton ($2.50). Pretentious history of a landed Scottish family, treating exhaustively the amorous career of a solid young scion, who is likely to interest the reader much less than he does the author...
...JONES OF SCOTLAND YARD-Harry Stephen Keeler-Dutton ($2.50). A wordy, almost interminable, brain-addler is this sequel to The Marceau Case, presented as a complete dossier of photos, letters, cables, clippings...
...corruption, slips into a bog of cliches in his love scenes. DEATH IS A LITTLE MAN-Minnie Hite Moody-Julian Messner ($2.50). Depressing description of the private lives of some Georgia Negroes, written in an un-nerving combination of literate English and darky dialect. A CRIME-Georges Bernanos-Dutton ($2). Consisting largely of jerky conversation, liberally peppered with dots and dashes, this unconventional murder tale is likely to antagonize the mystery-addict, despite the compelling, almost hypnotic quality of the characters. Non-Fiction THE HERITAGE OF THE CATHEDRAL- Sartell Prentice-Morrow ($3.50). Offering the layman a rich interpretation of church...
...SOVIET WORKER - Andrew Smith- Dutton ($3). A U. S. Communist, employed for five years in an electrical equipment factory at Leningrad, tells of his disillusionment with the Stalin regime. Completely one-sided, the book relates incident after incident to show that Russian workers are not paid enough to live on, that Russian industries are shame fully disorganized and inefficient...