Fiction: Recent Books: Jun. 15, 1936

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POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC HISTORY OF RUSSIA — George Vernadsky — Little, Brown ($4). Traces, in unadorned academic language, the course of Russian history to the present day, devoting particular attention to early developments, skimping on post-revolutionary events.

Poetry

BOWERY PARADE—Stella Wynne Herron —Delphic Studios ($1.50). Thirteen poems of forceful protest against economic injustice.

Murders

JIG-TIME MURDERS—Charles G. Givens —Bobbs-Merrill ($2). Racy dialog, seething atmosphere, sound plot combine to make palatable to the mystery-addict a chronicle of three kinds of slaughter on a flooded Tennessee estate.

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