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-- By Bermice Finnega'a
KITTY FOYLE
By Christopher Morley

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This is the natural history OF q
Woman. It is a novel which never
seems to be written; it is a woman
thinking. In the oncoming crisis OF
her life, one that every civilized
woman faces though often uncon-
sciously, it is necessary for her to
think over what has happened up
to her present age of %. One must
suppose that someone just happen
ed to be around and overheard her.
At any rate the story of Kitty
Foyle, thought by herself, would
never Intentionally be put en-
paper.
The story is deep with humor
and courage and pathos, and the
candor every woman recognizes
and knows it best to conceal. Per-
haps it could only have happened
in an era of anxious social change.
The title the author first had for it
Nation Wide, shows that he has
thought of it as general symptom.
But in it's final form it can carry
no other label than the name Of
Kitty Foyle herself, representa-
tive of a generation of women who
were children in the 1920's and
girls in the 1930s. and who have
known a special kind Of joy and
trouble. The scenes happen to be
laid in Philadelphia, in the Middle
West, and in New York, but might
have been equally true in any
| largo American cities
The rarest thing in the world is
truthful confession from a wom-
en- whose confessions are worth
hearing. From Kitty Fcyle, born
of modest Irish-American stock
in a manufacturing region of Phil
adelphia, we hear what: it was like
to be an American girl in the years
just behind us, and her look to-
ward the future. In school, in bus
mess, in love, in her struggle
against a massive and frozen social
tradition-and in her defeat which
looks strangely like victory-we
get to know and admire her. Not
even our sympathy can help her
solve the problem she faces at the
| end. 1t has never been solved and
!, it never will be.
To speak Of this book as having
an author" is almost irrevelant.
This Is Kitty Foyle, Speaking for
herself. She lives her secret life,
perhaps quite close to you, every
day.
MEN UNDER THE SEA
BY Edward Ellsberg
Writing with grim excitement
and a pulsing reality, Commander
Ellsberg here tells the thrilling
story of the men who go down
under the sea into the green twi-
light and blackness Of the ocean
floor. He begins with an account
Of the final stage of the salvaging
/ of the submarine Ssh and the
quiet heroism of the divers who
brought that ship UP from the bot
tom. From this he turns to the
tragedy Of the 81, sunk by the
destroyer Paulding off Province
town Harbcr, and in a matchless
series of chapters relates his own
breathless race by ambulance,
train and power boat to the scene
Of the collision and its heart-rend-
ing aftermath.
! These two undersea tragedies
with the attempted rescues in
which Commander Ellsberg him.
self played an important and dra-
matte part, furnish him with a
background for describing the
most recent inventions in sub
marine salvage work and the
latest safety devices for the res
cue of men trapped in stricken
ships below the sea. One of the
most fascinating of these stories
is the authors own perfecting OF
an undersea torch for cutting
steel, with the amusing and almost
tragic tests by courageous divers
The lure Of sunken treasure and
the possibilities of its recovery fill
the closing pages Of this unique
book Of action and adventure. Here