SOVIET RUSSIA: 1917-1933. By Vera M. Dean. World Peace Foundation, 50c; 25c.

RUSSIA TODAY. By Sherwood Eddy. Farrar & Rinehart, $2.50.

FROM THE FIRST TO THE SECOND FIVE YEAR PLAN; a Symposium. International Publishers, $1.50.

LENIN. By Ralph Fox. Harcourt, Brace, $2.

MOSCOW, 1911-1933. By Allan Monkhouse. Little, Brown, $3.50.

WOMAN IN SOVIET RUSSIA. By Fannina W. Halle. Viking, $4.50.

RED MEDICINE. By Sir Arthur Newsholme and John A. Kingsbury. Doubleday, $2.50.

THE GREAT OFFENSIVE. By Maurice Hindus. Smith & Haas, $3.

DURANTY REPORTS RUSSIA, by Walter Duranty. Viking, $2.75.

HANDBOOK OF THE SOVIET, by the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, originally scheduled for January, will be published by John Day on March 8.

According to the publishers of "Mad Hatter's Village," by Mary Cavendish Gore, the authoress' first published novel, she were out three different typewriters composing twelve earlier ones. Different publishers asked Miss Gore, or sometimes the pseudonymous persons she pretended to be, to revise five of these novels but she spurned such requests. However, she completely rewrote "Mad Hatter's Village" which was a conversation in its original form.

Miss Gore was born on the banks of the Shannon, a member of a large and odd family," and was reared in the south of England. Her Spartan father, recently deceased, "believed all poets were blackguards, that Moses actually saw God in the brush fire, that ethical excellence could only be inculcated by the heavy rod, that trade was outcast and that the summum bonum of existence was to avoid your neighbor." Miss Gore's mother reared her to believe in poetry, in fantastic superstitions like witches, ghosts and the headless coachman, and in the nobility of the Gores--"if Ireland had her rights each of us would be wearing a coronet." At the age of twenty Miss Gore ran away to the Canadian Northwest and lived for nine months on the horder of a lage Indian reservation.

Returning to a cabin by the Shannon, she lost herself in reading for two years and began conributing to various London journals. A spill while fox hunting gave her a limp for life and, when she finally drifted to Hollywood, narrowed the scope of her acting roles. Detemined to win literary fame, she fied to a mountain cabin near Santa Barbara, carrying four hundred volumes annexed during her wanderings. She wrote two novels and then got gold fever. After encountering nine milion deerflies without panning enough pay dirt to blind one of them, she went down to the seashore "and ventured inta matrimony for two years," Except for a few brief experiences as a scenario writer, Miss Gore has remained in that seashore village--the scene of her novel--and "has done nothing but write, read, swim and tramp the hills for six years."

"Mad Hatter's Village" will be reviewed shortly in the CRIMSON.