BOOKS IN BRIEF
Books In Brief TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, by James T. Far-rell (Vanguard Press. $2.50). Fans of Farrell will welcome this collection of a dozen short stories and sketches as in the best tradition of...
...2.75...
...Crow-ell...
...Those who are not fans of Farrell will lament again that any writer can painstakingly lay words together end-on-end like bricks and with diligent sweat create a house in which a sensitive lover of literature would not care to hang his hat...
...Holt...
...Fans of Farrell will welcome this collection of a dozen short stories and sketches as in the best tradition of the stark and humorless creator of Studs Lonigan...
...A first novel, High Tide at Noon is a refreshing story of a nice girl married to a gambler, the uncertainties of lobster fishing, and the life, death, and rebirth of a small island off the Maine Coast...
...Nothing very different here from the familiar pattern of islands-off-the-coast-of-Maine stories, but the story moves and there is some good writing about the salt air and sun...
...HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES, by Clifford L. and Elizabeth H. Lord...
...Lord was director of the New York State Historical Association before entering the armed services...
...HIGH TIDE AT NOON, by Elizabeth Ogilvie...
...A fine supplement to almost any phase of American history, the Lords' interesting atlas illustrates through its maps the wars on our soil, westward expansion, transportation routes, population growth, and any number of other important, and some unimportant, facts...
Vol. 8 • August 1944 • No. 33
