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...unreels the story of an Ohio boy whose domineering mother married him off young and innocent to a pallid missionary, a virgin before the Lord, called Naomi. In an Africa which Mr. Bromfield must have studied up on lurid picture postcards, Philip Downes revolts against his calling and celibacy. Attacked by bloodthirsty blackamoors, he narrowly escapes with life and wife back to Ohio, where he enters a steel mill and espouses his fellow-workers' cause. Just before they go on a losing strike, he slips off unexpectedly into a career of painting...
...mother's and Naomi's horror he has learned about drink from the hunkies. To his own horror, he learns about women from Naomi, who bears twins in her effort to hold her man. But he is enamored of Mary Conyngham, widowed sweetheart of his childhood. She installs him in the barn of Shane Castle (the Shane family, bygone royalty of "the Town," being lugged in to connect this book with its predecessors as another "panel" in the Bromfield series). Mary Conyngham is out to rescue Philip from his mother, whose pious meddling caused everyone...
CLOUD CUCKOO LAND-Naomi Mitchison-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). In the declining days of Greece- when Athens was being slowly done to death by Sparta, when the age-old conflict between democracy and oligarchy was being fought out more bitterly than today-this wistful tale takes place. Its hero, Alxenor, an aristocrat with democratic leanings, is driven from Poieêssa, his native Aegean isle, and follows a dubious fortune in Athens for a time, in Ephesus among the wealthy barbarians (Persians), in Sparta; and finally marches with the Ten Thousand under Cyrus into Asia, dreaming at the last the vain...
...CONQUERED-Naomi Mitchison-;Harcourt ($2.00). Meromic, " The Pride of-the Venetii," young Prince of Ancient Gaul, came to manhood just at the time of Caesar's conquest. His tribe crushed, his father killed, his sister driven to suicide, he was sold as a slave and sent to Rome. He was rescued from torture by Titus Barrus, young Roman aristocrat and Lieutenant of Caesar. A friendship as strange as it was deep grew up between them, its bonds so strong that it even forced Meromic to fight against his countrymen during the last campaign against Vercingetorix. But at last...
...where, and why Naomi...