Books: Books of the Week

A NEW YORK TEMPEST—Manuel Komroff—Coward-McCann ($2.50). THE RIPENING—Colette—Farrar & Rinehart ($2). HOT WATER—P. G. Vodehouse— Doubleday, Dor an ($2). WHEN THE GANGS COME TO LON- DON—Edgar WTallace—Crime Club ($2). Another posthumous Parthian shot from the late great detectifictioneer. THE LIFE OF GEORGE ELIOT—Emi- lie and Georges Romieu—Dutton ($3-75)-Rodomontadinous French biography of one Mary Ann Evans, writer.