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Stafford (Boston Adventure) command a cosmopolitan confidence that makes a lot of their male counterparts read like sentimental softies raised on Louisa May Alcott. Since the new school is now threatened with overcrowding, it is a relief to find New York-born Elizabeth Pollet enrolling elsewhere with her first novel. A Family Romance has its faults, but they are not those of the self-assurance school; at its best, A Family Romance achieves a rare, fresh tone of youthful warmth and wonder...
...Novelist Pollet has focused her slender story on two sisters, Sally and Marjorie Reynolds, who are at that difficult stage when adult independence beckons but family ties still bind. At 23, Sally is the sort of girl people call "delightfully feminine," though they wonder why she doesn't marry. Marjorie, 17, shows more troubling symptoms: a vague intellectual restlessness combined with a fondness for make-believe play with her six-year-old brother Paul...
...family is drawn back together again after baby brother Paul falls off a cliff. Sally and Marjorie return to find a humbled father and a surprisingly bucked-up mother. But the device of killing off one character to reunite the others works no better for Novelist Pollet than for more experienced hands; it does not hide her failure to make clear just what can be in store for her two heroines once the family has patched matters...
...best things in A Family Romance are incidental to its story, for Author Pollet is far more gifted at showing adolescent innocence than adult griminess. The book has appealing glimpses of camaraderie between an adolescent girl and a six-year-old boy, of young people carrying on their conversations through blocks of embarrassed silence, of a young girl expressing her innocent confidence that she can take love or leave it alone. ("It's all right to be in love, as long as you don't spend too much time at it.") Though a bit wobbly with grownup troubles...
...Louis (Pollet) 7, Cincinnati 0 W L Pet. G.B. G.L. Philadelphia 90 62 .592 2 Brooklyn...