'Among the recently published Books we find to recommend to de-maniing readers are "Twelve 'Against' the Gods," by William Bolitho. (Simon & Schuster), in which the author makes a study of the lives of a dozen renowned adventurers, including not only Lola Montez and Casafova, but Alexander the Great as well—and even Wood-yow Wilson, Then there is "America Set Free," by Count Hermann seriing (Harper) in which a distinguished scholar psycheanalyses America, "Is Sex Necessary?" by James Thurber and E. B. White (Harper), a more or less funny Burlesque of those sex books: "The Cradle of God," by Llewellyn Powys (Harcourt, Brace), in which a pagan retells the story, of the Old Testament; "July 14," by Emil Ludwig (Putnam), a dramatic account of who started thew
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