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Legends of a Golden Age or a Garden of Eden are probably dim memories of the lost homeland whence the restless Sumerians drifted into the Euphrates Valley. They knew how to use the wheel and the arch, how to irrigate their lands, and they had begun to write, Belief in immortality is indicated by the sacrifice of servants after a royal death. Clay cups were always found in the tombs beside the victims, and Dr. Woolley's energetic wife guessed that they drank a narcotic or poison. Her husband finds this plausible, makes bold thus to recreate a royal...
...Handsome, dapper Capt. Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal of Britain, and White Hope of the Foreign Office, is sent to Paris, Berlin, and Rome to explain in private conversations the advantages of the British Plan for the peace of Europe. Berlin and Rome are cordial, but the newly installed Doumergue cabinet in Paris refuses to budge. Before France will agree to any disarmament she insists that international control over Germany's rearmament be installed, that Nazi Storm Troops and other semimilitary bodies be dissolved...
...SIGHT OF EDEN-Roger Vercel- Harconrt, Brace ($2.50). First-rate yarn about Breton cod-fishermen off the Greenland coast. A French prize novel that for once was well worth translating; with little pictures by Rockwell Kent...
...DIGWEED AND MR. LUMB-Eden Phillpotts-Macmillan ($2). The disappearance of one of them brings two old misogynists to the eyes of England's rural constabulary. The garrulity of the survivor helps police solve a murder carefully planned for three years. MURDER STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY -August W. Derleth-Loring & Mussey ($2). The small town's mean man was stabbed just before "Judge" Peck arrived. His son, his sister, his half-brother change from suspects to victims. The "Judge's" delving into the past unearths both the cause and manner of the killing. EPILOGUE-Bruce Graeme-Lippincott...
...women, those who keep an eye on the main chance and let nothing stand in their way; more kindly, less certain souls, who wish only to live and let live, are trampled beneath the feet of the climbers. But a day of reckoning comes: there is no Eden without the tree of the knowledge of right and wrong. Selina Jacox, stern, avaricious, grasping all she could hold, becomes the millionaire apricot Queen, known all over the country, and lived out her lonely days in a cheerless mansion, bejeweled and embittered, fabulously wealthy in money, but poor in everything else...