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...John Weld-Scribner ($2.75). John Weld's novel recounts the ardors, agonies and occasional pleasures of a wagon train in its ox-paced procession, in the year 1846, from Independence, Mo. to California. The collective difficulties stack up, in the course of nearly 500 pages, into considerable pain and narrative power. The troubles of the naively conceived individuals are considerably less impressive...
EMPIRE ON THE SEVEN SEAS-James Truslow Adams-Scribner...
FANDANGO-Robed Briffault-Scribner's ($2.50). Because a few years ago many reviewers would not call a rotten book rotten-or couldn't get the scent-if its politics were Left, Anthropologist Robert Briffault developed an extraordinary reputation through his first novel, Europa, scarcely diminished it with Europa in Limbo. Robert Forsythe wrote of him, in New Masses: "I not only consider him the most brilliant writer in the English language today but by long odds the most learned and profound man of our time." Briffault's third novel, Fandango, is shorter and a little less pretentious...
...THOU THE BRIDE-Christine Weston -Scribner ($2.50). A first novel, laid in Maine, plumb full of Balzacian characters: a violent-blooded patriarch, three bastards, two idiots, a miscellany of neurotics and misfits. In two generations their collective activities include a sex murder, several adulteries, a heap of frustrations and painful deaths, with only a gentle, all-forgiving girl named Fortune and leathery Grandmother Noakes to relieve the psychopathic shadows...
...EAGLES GATHER-Taylor Caldwell -Scribner ($2.50). After World War I the Bouchards, most powerful...