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bands life and sanity. The whole tale is pure
romance. charmingly told, with a flavor Of the
period in which it has its setting

romance. charmingly told, with flavor of the
period In which it has its setting.
COVERING TWO YEARS BY T. v. Morris.
New York: Reynal Hitchcock.
A FIRST novel. published in England before
the appearance Of this American edition,
Covering Two Years" is the work of a young
Harvard man, a contemporary Of James Gould
Cozzens and Walter Edmonds, who have had
recent striking fiction successes. Mr. Morris
here makes study of a morbid woman Judith
Mahon, who asks only of life that lit should
pass as swiftly and painlessly possible"
And she Is still young woman. The reasons
why she has immured herself in the gloomy
Back Bay home of her old uncle and aunt why
she feels herself a dead person in a dead city
are told through her memories and in her con-
fldnces to Morton Halliday. 1t all bgan at
boarding school, when her devoted friendship
with Kate became the most important thing in
her life. 1t remained so until she met agair
her childhood friend, Keith Conkling and found
that she loved him. From this time the con-
fct in her naturally introverted mind between
her friend and her lover grew more and more
intense and when Keith killed in France
and Kate committed suicide, Judith blamed
herself for both tragedies and abandoned life
She took refuge from its hurts in the somber
house of her hypochondriac uncle, Harold Hig-
ginson, himself victim OF fate in the shape
untalented soprano. After six years Judith
makes an attempt to renew life, when she meets
Morton Halliday but what seems a happy mar
riage and the birth of child not enough
TO rescue her from her slavery to the past When
the story ends she is back in the Beacon street
house, playing solitaire in the chilly drawing
room, ordering Mr.. Higginson's dietary menus.
sunk again into a haze of reverie, this time
forever. Covering Two Years" is pathological
tale suggestive of the work of Julian Green
but less horrible in its material and less mature
in its technique.
THE MAINSTAY OF AMERICAN INDIVIDU-
ALISM- A Survey of the Farm Question
BY Cassius M. Clay New York: The Mac
milan Co.
THOUGH lawyer, the author of this plea
for the farm from a farm back
ground and is a farm owner. He believes that
relief for the farmer in this industrial age in
which he inadvertently finds himself is closely
tied up with the question whether we shall
produce for closely secured home market alone
or shall continue the fight, ever growing more
savage. for foreign markets. With legal pre-
cision he states the case of farm against factory
and concludes that 'over the term the
interest of the farmers, which here comedies
with that OF the consuming class in general
would seem to be in the preservation of free
markets, and of a free price system" with
certain inevitable exceptions He outlines In
one chapter "a decade of farm relief" which
has not relieved. In his conclusion he says that
for the solution of the farm problem as of
many other problems, "the desperate need of
the United States is for politicians with eco
nonic training and brand of craftsmanship
that represents a blend of the two sciences"
and pays tribute to the "revtalizing leader
ship of President Roosevelt"