Fiction: Recent Books: Sep. 27, 1937

JOHN CORNELIUS—Hugh Walpole—Doubleday, Doran ($3). Lengthy, first- person novel purporting to be the life story of a famous writer (1884-1921) and friend of Walpole. Readers will conjure up many a conjecture over who's who in this literary gallery.

WE ARE TEN—Fannie Hurst—Harper ($2.50). Ten recent short stories in Fannie Hurst's deep-breaking, broad-bosomed style, about murder, marriage, young love.

THE DEPTHS & THE HEIGHTS—Jules Romains—Knopf ($3). Vol. VI of Romains' monumental novel-about-Paris, Men of Good Will (TIME, June 5, 1933 et seq.). In this installment Novelist George Allory, bitterly chagrined by his failure of election to the Academy, begins his tumble to the gutter; while Psychiatrist Viaur starts climbing to the stars. No end is in sight, and Author Romains has not divulged how much is yet to come.

LOST HERITAGE—Bruno Frank—Viking ($2.50). Factually sober, fictionally lively novel, laid in Hitler Germany, about a cultured, honest-minded young nobleman who becomes involved in a monarchist coup d'état, returns after his escape to save an accomplice, settles finally in London (mostly in the British Museum).

RADIUM — Rudolf Brunngraber — Random House ($2.50). Stiltedly-written story of the discovery and world-exploitation of radium.

YOUNG HENRY or NAVARRE—Heinrich Mann—Knopf ($3). Rip-roaring historical novel based on a violent, real and royal life by Thomas Mann's older brother and fellow-exile.

Non-Fiction

HE DID NOT DIE AT MEYERLING—Auto-biography of "R," a Habsburg Prince, in collaboration with Henry Wysham Lanier—Lippincott ($3). Diverting, specious story of a man claiming to be the secret son of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, who, he maintains, did not commit suicide in 1889 but lived until 1914.

HEYDAY IN A VANISHED WORLD—Stephen Bonsai—Norton ($3.50). Another newspaperman's Personal History, antedating the days of Sheean, Farson, Gunther, Duranty. As reporter for the New York Herald under James Gordon Bennett. Bonsai interviewed Parnell, saw Arthur James Balfour, Clemenceau, Briand plain and young.

GOLIATH: THE MARCH OF FASCISM—G. A. Borgese—Viking ($3). One of Italy's foremost literary critics, now a professor at the University of Chicago, contributes a splendid history of Italian culture and politics from Dante to Mussolini—who will certainly not allow its publication in Italy.