FICTION: Recent & Readable, Oct. 16, 1944

GUERRILLA—Lord Dunsany—Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50).

When the Germans conquered the Land, Srebnitz left school to join Hlaka's guerrilla band on the Mountain. The Land is presumably Greece but it might be any land fighting for its liberty. The men of the Mountain are not individuals but figures from a poetic legend. Otherwise Irish Lord Dunsany's latest invention is pure adventure story.

THEY DARE NOT GO A-HUNTING—Dorothea Cornwall — Dodd, Meod ($2.50).

Red-headed Mike Walton decided to rescue the lovely sheltered Julia from her maternal cocoon, but once he had married her he found himself, like Ulysses, in a land where it was always afternoon. The way in which he won his freedom and at last induced Julia to face up to life may not add to the sum of human knowledge, but it won its author the $10,000 Dodd, Mead-Redbook contest and will probably win her several times 10,000 readers.

NIGHT UNTO NIGHT—Philip Wylie—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.75).

A restatement of some of the ideas of Author Wylie's recent Generation of Vipers (TIME, Jan. 18, 1943), the framework is a ghost story. Ann Gracey, war widow agreed to rent her haunted house to John Galen, a biochemist, who had just learned that he was epileptic and in danger of madness. The developing love of these two, and the search for the "It" hidden in the house share interest with the author's views on religion, politics, art, and—above all—death. Provocative. General

LOST IN THE HORSE LATITUDES—H. Allen Smith—Doubleday, Doran ($2).

With irreverent hilarity, Author Smith (Low Man on a Totem Pole) tells how he became a Hollywood writer and of his adventures thereafter. Typical tale: how an enraged agent bit Louella Parsons' arm at a dinner party.

NONE BUT A MULE—Barbara Woollcott—Viking ($2.50).

A patchwork of mildly amusing reminiscences by one of Alec Woollcott's four nieces about her pleasantly eccentric family. Polly, the rebel, wanted one of the dog's bones and was willing to wear the dog's collar and live in his kennel to get it. Lynn Fontanne tried vainly to make an actress of Barbara. Uncle Alec disapproved of his nieces and insulted them, but entertained them with inappropriate magnificence on their rare visits to New York.