Fiction: Recent Books: Feb. 11, 1935

THE BLACK CONSUL — Anatolu Vinogradov— Viking ($2.75). In this historical novel of Haiti and the French Revolution by a Soviet author, Toussaint l'Ouverture. Robespierre, Marat, Lafayette and other great men of the epoch take the stage. Vinogradov's method of fictionalizing history is to incorporate verbatim reports taken from original sources into his stories. Thus the unsuspecting reader is treated to actual state papers, speeches, documents. Vinogradov may have been the first historical novelist to make extensive use of this method, but Guy Endore. U. S. novelist, employed the same technique in Babouk, his novel of a West Indian Negro. published by Vanguard Press last autumn. LEAN MEN— Ralph Bates— Macmillan ($2.50). In Barcelona during recent Spanish revolution, the proletariat fights the monarchy and visits the music halls while Francis Charing is involved with three women. Adventure moves from city streets to mountain passes.

FORGIVE ADAM — Michael Foster — Morrow ($2). Life among those hard-boiled newspapermen.

Non-Fiction

THE MAN ON THE BARGE— Max Miller — Button ($2.50). The author of Cover the Waterfront, an expert on the simple life, discovers a bargeman who combines philosophizing with fishing.

THE PIPE DREAM OF PEACE — John W. Wheeler-Bennett — Morrow ($3). The author of The Wreck of Reparations calls his new book "The Story of the Collapse of Disarmament." A more serious and solemn discussion of the subject that Drew Pearson and Constantine Brown recently put into the wisecracks of The American Diplomatic Game.

THE WHITE-HEADED EAGLE — Richard G. Montgomery — Macmillan ($3.50). Biography of the adventurer who became chief factor of Hudson's Bay Co. in the Columbia River country. He married a half-breed Indian woman, founded the trading post at Vancouver, and was a good uncle to the Indians.

CHANGING ASIA — Egon Erwin Kisch-Knopf ($3). A famed Czechoslovakian reporter's visit to the land of Tamerlane and Genghis Khan. Under the impact of Soviet five-year-planning Turcomen and Uzbeks are leaping from the age of the camel caravan to the age of the motor truck in one jump.