Abstract

Books in Brief

The article presents information on several books. Titles and authors of some of those books are "Touch Me Not: Four Writs of a Curt Picaresque," by Vincent McHugh, "Our Biggest Customer," by George Harrison Phelps and "Deutsehiands Aussenpolitik in der Nachkriegszeit 1919-1929," by Erich Koch-Weser. The novel titled "Touch Me Not" is a book of great power and depth. It tells the story of the love of a boy of twenty for a girl of seventeen. The background of the novel is a vulgar and garish amusement park in New England, brilliantly and vividly sketched in, where the character Gil Blent and his college friend, Dane, have got jobs during the summer vacation. The friendship between Gil and Dane and the whole portrait of Dane, are done with great beauty in the book.