Fiction: Recent Books: May 23, 1938

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WIND OVER WISCONSIN—August Derleth—Scribner ($2.50). Volume Two in 29-year-old Author Derleth's conscientious project of a Wisconsin historical novel, this is a poetic, placid story of Wisconsin during the Black Hawk War, centring on an idealistic French fur trader.

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JOHN OF THE MOUNTAINS—Edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe—Houghton Mifflin ($3.75). From the unpublished, pencil-smudged journals of the famous U. S. naturalist, John Muir, a fragmentary, 440-page selection which rightfully belongs with his seven published journals. Readers may deplore the book's jumbled effect, but will agree that it succeeds with rare effect in communicating the freshness of mountains and deep woods.

FURTHER — Amelie Posse-Brazdová —Dutton ($3.50). Continuation of the autobiography begun in Sardinian Sideshow, recounting life in post-War Italy, meetings with Czechoslovakian Patriot Masaryk and music students in Rome; by a Swedish lady who tells it with the air of a motherly, experienced traveler sending news of the great world to the folks back home.

BELOW THE ROARING FORTIES—F. D. Ommanney—Longmans, Green ($3). Antarctic adventures (1929-1937) of a London zoologist, with smelly descriptions of whaling, acute descriptions of penguins and seals, warm descriptions of the Discovery's, Norwegian crew members, an exciting account of narrow escape from polar ice and marooning.

THE WORLD AT MY SHOULDER—Eunice Tietjens—Macmillan ($3). Good-natured, modest autobiography of a poetess who helped Harriet Monroe start Poetry, clearing up some minor points in the history of Chicago's pre-War literary life.