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TAMPICO-Joseph Hergesheimer -Knopf ($2.50). To a forest of oil wells, peopled by Mexican bandits, derelict Yankees, greasy drillers, dollar-brained exploiters and always, always, their perfumes clinging, their bodies twining and hinting as only a close observer of exotic flesh could make them twine and hint, women of extreme temperature waiting in cafes, hotel lobbies and upper chambers, Govett Bradier, oil baron extraordinary, returns to complete the theft of an associate's wife, Vida Carew. He is convalescent from malaria but chronically passion-ridden. What time he hangs around Tampico, small bright knives slip out of sheer hosiery...
...England in the 18th Century, many a poet rhapsodized on the noble redskin, wept at the thought that some day no more Indians would live to roam through the American forest primeval...
...many sad devices so that when at last a moment occurs which, by its inherent humanity, is dramatic and blood-stirring, they have nothing left to say, and can only shake their heads, and tap out fustian phrases with their fingers. Last week such a moment occurred at Forest Hills...
...BOOK WITHOUT A NAME-Anonymous - Brentano's ($2.50). The lady of this 18th Century journal seems to have lived in a quiet way, in a Hall, by a forest, with her natural son, a few friends and a few gypsies for company. Some evenings she would draw close to her bedroom fire and reflect upon her unconventional estate, her mother love, the perfection of her absent lover, passing events in politics, art, literature, or upon life itself as she found it in her solitude. The texture of her mind was altogether extraordinary, far in advance of its time, indeed...
...wander naked, and herself too, beneath "the unastonished trees." Socrates, she felt, and many another sage, would have approved; her contemporaries "would rather face their God with naked souls than naked bodies," being disease-ridden, blotched and misshapen. She freed her boy from fear of the dark and the forest. She resolved, in one of the old fashioned phrases so fresh on her pen, to urge him out of the nest that he may learn...