BOOKS IN BRIEF

Books In Brief FARMER'S TAX MANUAL, 1U3-U, by William C. Clay, Jr. (Doubleday, Doran. $1) Prepared by an attorney, this manual claims to contain "more farm deductions than any other tax book."...

...Miss Mitchell, whom the publishers describe as "the only American woman ever to become a member of the Serbian Chetnik guerrillas," misses none of the dramatic possibilities in recalling her encounters with the Gestapo, her days in prison, and her beholding of the uprising of the Yugoslavs against their Quislings and the Nazis...
...He presents himself as a self-made tycoon and is inordinately proud of his financial success...
...THE SERBS CHOOSE WAR, by Ruth Mitchell (Doubleday, Doran...
...Clear instructions and examples...
...He insists that ho is not against unions, never has been, that he only wants men free to work without being union members...
...Scribners...
...Billy Mitchell presents her version of internal problems of the Croats and Serbs...
...This autobiography of the president of Republic Steel gives Tom Girdler a chance to shake many chips from his shoulders...
...2.75...
...A diverting story, with serious social roots...
...He speaks as the Voice of Big Business when he illogi-cally contends the American people should be grateful Republic Steel won against the Department of Justice, in a Sherman Antitrust Act suit, and "could thus greatly strengthen the capacity of Republic Steel to turn out" steel for defense...
...BOOT STRAPS, by Tom M. Girdler...
...Miss Child takes the old theme of a poor boy-rich girl marriage, plants it in the WPA depression days, and makes it bloom with freshness and life...
...IF I COME HOME, by Nellise Child (Doubleday, Doran...
...He is in an Edgar Kennedy mood as he pounds away at a defense of himself and Republic of the Chicago Mar.-^cre and labor strife in their plants...
...An arrogant book, loaded with Tory prejudices...
...2.50...
...One of his few admissions is his confession that when his temper overwhelms him he has something in common with Edgar Kennedy...
...In this controversial and somewhat involved account of her experiences in Albania and Yugoslavia, the sister of the late Gen...

Vol. 7 • December 1943 • No. 50


 
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