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The Literary W0dRevieWs of Current Publications Various Fields
Harper Prize Novel Deals
With Modern Marriage
Story by Judith Kelly Fails to
Equal High Standards Set
BY Previous Winners
Worrioqe Is a Private Affair
By Mary.Carfer Roberts.

Marriage Is a Private Affair
By Judith Kelly. Harper & Bros, York
important this Of the
awards which currently exists this counhat
Is it has
respected 1t has been awarded now 10 mesevey other
year since books which has been bestowed have almost
sponsored by American
pbshersthat STABILITY popular appeaeem to have
ouded presided competition
The Harper winner where most
prize novels patient resignation
This having with genuine that
better than should
Perhaps sccnct description of lies in single factt
was III % obers who NAV feel that it is unfair to bring an
objective will that
the might have been
Shows Understanding of Marriage
Among Depression Generation
As its name marriage And it is done with
the without irony without satire ana most
marriage which peculiarly the dpres-
sion understanding Of those aspects IL
laws hem out for the Mrs Kelly herself apparently
noticed that while many excellent novel novels an nave ro oee
must inevitably cast its contemporary
Novels which merely of imaginary events
events As such Now the events in Marriage Affair"
entertaining 1t is sad thing to say So but 1t is also
story particular talents
Comfortable life in superior surroundings
COMPARABLE She has congena ena & ana aoo
babies succession and the psure
utterly changes
With WITH tst Startling aHn:'sa Saddsnnsss ss1ass
The young mother
that symbol Of civilization
told then that she longs companonhp
hs ss @ s G% mo Evidence @ @ @ % has m m nte of n m
for life beyond domci Nor up to this moment has Mrs Ieo been
Mrs Kelly suddenly weed dignihed and
py incidental male deary professor who combines love
making with dissertations on the situation in Europe and the need for
social reform lhs SOUNDS appanney unaacve to the reader ou
SAYS Mrs Kelly Theo thinks simply grand Theo believes to be
beside which the husband and babies nave been TOO TOO
prepared
deserves could episode significance
plays perfectly straight girl
On the next she is simply simply wa nasty I little cheat Nothing whatsoever
the reviewer find the effort entirely of
the rewards.
Attempts Suicide After
Deception Is Discovered
IN a oS pns Of # the m M has %
realizes that her husband whom she loves after aes after all
M with v m s mos MS m an. ss n
In capital letters dawns upon her apparently for the time
put aside their cldih and old and
tolerance doing
that the light has broken her thrown her And
tries kill herself
suicide and tells happily
ward The curtain falls on which might bring
~ The background of this affecting drama good deal better than
whom with comfortable average jobs maintain them violent
steadily capitalism 60 round and
round One has heard their patter life Mrs Kelly
interested truly in nothing except their lives
'oea they uniquely
ana confident that this vision relieves them of conforming
ana uenceS the
IN morals than the
where the youngsters of the 0s it. they
SIN as sort obligation
presenting them Mrs Kelly Though
In er peoccuaton with TeoS weird
fcn ac possibilities which lie the generation she
s mas MADE clear their besetns of complacen
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The Sun Is My Undoing
BY Marguerite Steen The Viking Press Nec York
not this long that reviewer
will call the Gone With year Its resemblance o
the NcheH Monument qualitative well
romance it is story it lush 1t hobs with
sentiment drpS with eopnents nndeles
appearances disputed Wills hapes madns every
hng ana lot Most
on period piece goes at her work ghost of
apology the ~ e1N' Va
1t is the story of one Matthew Flood O inhers the
fortune English
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some devil and the chief lady abolonst
him hordC