Books: Villain to Hero

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Books of the Week

WINES: THEIR SELECTION, CARE AND SERVICE — Julian Street—Knopf ($2). Useful information for bibbers, by one who has been at it for 30 years.

DAVID—Naomi Royde-Smith—Viking ($1.75). Psychological novelette about a wealthy mother and her worshipped son.

THE PARIS FRONT, 1914-1918—Michel Corday—Dutton ($5). Parisian war diary of a French bureaucrat.

ARTIST AMONG THE BANKERS—Will Dyson—Dutton ($2). Diatribe against the banking system by British Etcher-Cartoonist Will Dyson, with illustrations superior to text.

THE CROSS OF PEACE—Philip Gibbs— Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Novel of a converted officer who works vainly for peace, finds love instead.

AT 33—Eva Le Gallienne—Longmans, Green ($3.50). Reminiscences of the founder-director of Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre.

DAYS WITHOUT END—Eugene O'Neill—Random House ($2.50). O'Neill's latest play, published simultaneously with the Manhattan opening.

CANNIBAL QUEST—Gordon Sinclair—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Canadian journalist on the loose in Mandalay, Bali, Baluchistan.