It is not uncommon to look a little askance at first novels. Tt is not Quite clear why this should be, a all novelists must write a first nove before they can write more. How~ ever, be this as it may, if Miss Sally Carson continues to write novels as ood as "Crooked Cross" it will not be long before she is a great deal better known than she is now. Miss
ae Sect in attempting to portray Carson has not chosen an easy Fub-effect of the Nazi Revolution affected the everyday lives of a poor Bavarian family named Kluger, one of whose members, the daughter Lexa, a young girl of twenty-two was engaged to the first assistant to the Surgical Clinic in Munich, Moritz Weissman. Moritz was a *|Jew, and suffered accordingly, the hands of the Nazis, and he and Lexa had planned to escape from Germany, but Moritz is killed in the attempt. The book is full of good matter, and the: charac. ters are drawn in such a way that it is possible to realize what are the Processes of mind actuating their ac~ tions. The period covered is from Xmas 1932'to the end of summer 1833—a critical time in the history of Germany—nrea.
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