BOOKS IN BRIEF
Books In Brief CONNECTICUT YANKEE, by Wilbur L. Cross. Yale University Press. $5. Cross' autobiography, completed on his 81st birthday, is a genial, witty, and over-detailed account of his career....
...His dry humor is at its best in the descriptions of his political campaigns...
...A Collection of Southwestern Writing...
...In fiction, there are stories by Paul Horgan, Oliver LaFarge, Mary King, Edwin Lanham, Katherine Anne Porter (one of the best), Conrad Richter, and Perry...
...Connecticut Yankee and proud of it, former Gov...
...The author of Hold Autumn In Your Hand has compiled, with taste and a loving hand, a fine assortment of writing about the Southwest...
...In non-fiction, there are contributions from Mabel Dodge Luhan, Duncan Aikman, J. Frank Dobiei and Owen P. White...
...ONLY AN INCH FROM GLORY, by Albert Halper...
...Cross recalls at great length his Yale days as teacher, dean, and editor of the Yale Review, and the latter part of his book is mainly about his political experiences in the '30's, when he served four terms as Connecticut's governor...
...Selected and with an introduction by George Sessions Perry...
...Harper & Brothers...
...ROUNDUP TIME...
...2.50...
...Completely different from his earlier Union Square and The Little People, Albert Halper's new novel traces the tragic paths of four frustrated'young people in Manhattan who come within "an inch from glory...
...A mellow, garrulous book, but strangely unrevealing...
...A tense, tawdry little story, skillfully handled...
...Wittlesey House...
Vol. 7 • November 1943 • No. 45
