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"The Cote of Mr. Crump" by
Ludwig Lewisohn. (The Bod-<*>
ley Head. London, 10/6).
"Tobiat Brandywine," by Dob
Wickenden. (Dent, London,
11/9).
"Unci* Dynamite," by P. G.
Wodehouse. (Herbert Jen
kins, London, 9/6).
LUDWIG LEWISOHN'S
novel, which was first
privately published in Paris
in 1931, because of the
fear of libel actions in
Ameru-a. is now brought
out for the first time in an
English edition.
It is a devastating study of
a horrible woman who demands
complete domination of her
husband.
We see her through the eyes
of Herbert Crump, a sensitive
American musician of German
origin, who has been threatened,
'cajoled and victimised into
(marriage with the loathsome
I Anne Vilas. who is twenty years
his senior.
Anne is everything that is ob
jectionable, and Crump soon
grows to hate her desperately,
to be obsessed with the desire
to escape from her dutches.
Ludwig Lewisohn spares us
nothing in his description of
every way to which Anne
offends Herbert, so chafes his
nerves that she ruins his career
and drives him to murder her.
In its detailed indictment of a
relentless woman ibis is an
ugly book, but it is one that
readers will not easily forget;
it is a most impressive novel.
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fTTBITING a family chronicle
lAJ at a leisurely pace, young ?
American novelist Dan Wicken.
den permits himself the device
of introducing into a large
household a mysterious
stranger, who appears ex
hausted, hungry and naif
frozen on the doorstep, and is
taken in and made welcome.
Through the introduction of
Tobias Brandywine into the
country mansion of old Senator
iPrescott Windrow. Mr. Wicken
den is able slowly to develop the
{characters of the old Senator
and his daughters and their
husbands and children.
Tobias Brandywine makes It
his object in life to help an the
Windrows find out just what
ithey really want to do and to
help them do it.
He encourages three genera
tions of them to develop the
small talents that make their
lives worth living, to face up to
their various problems and frus
trations. Finally, he leaves
them a much happier and more
united family than before his
coming
It's a wholesome story that
makes good, entertaining fiction.
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THE Uncle Dynamite of P.
G. Wodehouse's new story
is Frederick Altamont Cornwal
lis, fifth earl Of Tolcipnln>m
"one of the hottest earls
that ever donned a coronet."
For "in the evening of his
life he still retained, together
with a juvenile waistline, the
bright enthusiams and the
fresh, unspoiled mental outlook
of a slightly inebriated under
graduate."
In this story he benignly
copes with a situation calling
for rare audacity and strategy,
brilliantly evolving a plan that
saves Otis Painter, the pub- <
Usher, from financial disaster;
throws Sally Painter, Otls's
sister, into the manly arms of
Pongo Twistleton; and—despite
tee intervention of an explorer
whose identity Uncle Fred has
assumed—the discomfiture of
the nasty Sir Aylmer (otherwise
Mugsy) Bostock.
It's Wodehouse at his pre-war
best—which is quite enough to
say.
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