Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 25, 1935

THE SON OF RICHARD GARDEN—Neil Bell—Little, Brown ($2.50). Lengthy, solid novel about a father and his idolized son, by the author of Bredon and Sons.

CHICHI—Rachel Grant—Crowell ($2). Amusing, lightly satirical story of the Manhattan author-publisher racket.

THE TIME IS RIPE—Walter Greenwood —Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). The social climb of a small English shopkeeper, set against the Hogarthian background of unemployed slumdwellers; a dreary theme handled in masterly fashion.

THE HILL OF LIES—Heinrich Mann— Dutton ($2.50). The meteoric rise of a German peasant girl. The author's chief claim to fame is that...