Tue Gronrovs Hors—by Jane Burr, Duckworth London. 1921.
Eve felt a stir as she entered th room. It was an American party in Paris. She knew she was striking, with her black hair brushed straight back from her forehead and her high-waisted black gown billowing over silver roses down to her silver slippers, The same young woman had left a one-horse little town in Wisconsin an indefinite number of years before to storm New York, with a capital of $1,000 und a bundle of short stories. The sentence quoted depicta——her apotheosis. In the interval, she spends the thousand dollars in keeping house for an artist whom she has married with the idea of developing his genius. Realizing, eventually that her mothering merely makes him idle, she leaves him and in due course becomes a successful theatrical impresario—hence the trip to Paris, where she.meets her first husband and very nearly sets up again with him but at the last moment decides to stand by husband No. 2, whom she has married in some spare moment of her business career. The book is a study of the modern business woman and the rival attractions of success and babies. It is vividly written, in the style of a "movie" drama and the characters are drawn with some skill. But the whole story is one of depressing and unrelieved materialism, which leaves an unpleasant: taste The heroine's only law is gratification of her own pleasure, and the' other characters are not much better.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.