Books: Recent Fiction: Jan. 21, 1935

LAND OF PROMISE—Leo Lania—Macmillan ($2.50). Unhysterical story of Moses Mendel, a Ukrainian Jew, who fled from Russian pogromists to refuge in Germany. Lania, an exile from the Reich who sticks close to the news, includes in his novel a fictionized account of how Hugo Stinnes cornered industrial Germany during the inflation.

JOSHUA TODD—Fulton Oursler—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Bulky, somewhat raffish story of a young man against whom fate loaded the dice.

MR. FINCHLEY'S HOLIDAY—Victor Canning—Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). A British Caspar Milquetoast offers to watch a stranger's expensive automobile. When he falls asleep in...