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...principally noted for her weekly columns of literary chatter, "Turns With a Book-worm." In spare moments she writes novels, of which Never Ask the End is the latest and will apparently be the most successful (it is the Literary Guild choice for January). Many a reader who admires Authoress Paterson's flip, common-sensical newspaper way will shake a puzzled head over Never...
...Authoress Olivier has filled a long-felt want by writing a whole novel on the entrancingly English subject of drains (U. S.: plumbing). It opens quietly enough in a cathedral close, where a Mr. Chilvester inhabits a Christopher-Wrennish house and quietly tyrannizes over his two daughters, flotsam of two relicts dead in childbed. There is an odor of more than sanctity about Mr. Chilvester's house. Yes, drains! First to notice it is not any inhabitant of the house but the Dean's nephew, young Christopher, who as an architect takes an interest in such things...
...would be revealing, if hardly fair, to report that one of Authoress Jameson's favorite words is "sour." But so many successful authors deal in soft soap that it is scarcely surprising if less acclaimed but equally competent competitors take to acid. The three long short stories in Women Against Men are potent comments on a moot question: Is a hard world harder for women than for men? ¶Narrator of the first story' is Fanny, a shy, embittered woman whose career (she is a writer) is overshadowed by the much flashier success of an old girlhood friend...
...junket to Richmond Park, to have a nap on the grass. In the ladies' room she has luck enough to steal a purse, and when she gets home she finds a farewell present from George under her door. But she knows the jig is almost up. Authoress Jameson puts her to bed, watches her doze off. "The pulse in her arm lying on the dirty sheet is one of the stages of a mystery. Look once more and you can see how beautiful she is. Poor woman, let her sleep...
...Authoress Fairbank had done nothing else in her 525 pages, reprinting this popular song of the early 1800's would make it worth the price of admission. Critical readers may find her U. S. chronicle of 100 years ago vigorous in outline, feeble in detail. But there are plenty of doings in The Bright Land; they and its scenery keep the reader's interest, even if its people rarely move him to sympathetic belief...