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TOWARD THE MORNING (458 pp.) —Hervey Allen—Rinehart ($3).

If a fictional history of the U.S. were ever smelted down from the extant tons of costume novels, some of the better chapters could be taken from Hervey Allen's books. Since he went to Bermuda 21 years ago to research and write Anthony Adverse, Author Allen (who now lives in the U.S.) has gone on plowing the past behind a strong but long-winded team of scholarship and storytelling. Toward the Morning is the third big volume in a pentalogy that began with The Forest and the Fort...