In these days of labour-saving mechanism and ready-made under. clothes the demand, for an endless stream of very light reading appears Sleadily to increase. The shelves of the twopenny libraries, which are now to be found all over London ud in the big cities, must be filed and that portion of them not devoted to gory thrillers has probably to be plied with the literary (save the mark!) counterpart of the films whose pictures of passionate embraces Occupy many square miles of hoardings in our streets. In "Wiss fon the Green." by Nancy Mitford (Thornton. Butterworth, London. 7/6), the story opens with the an-Rounicement of a legacy for a completely innocuous youth who prompt permits his detested friend take the lead in drinking it away. With the avowed object of running some heiress to. earth, the twain resort to a village pub inthe immediate vicinity of a "big house: and there lives the girl whom 1 elleve to be England's largest heiress..-1 couldn't make a past her tien Because she was Under the Of consent..—She must be quite Seventeen by now."
"You! should feel' my bed, Out say, 1a like to inter on, You know you must be'a real princess, old ale we on old girl terms?"
"Perhaps You're Hight." said Jesper, Discussing their chances with the heiress, whose excuse for eluding her particular duke Jay in her fictitious attack of scarlet "She looks all right, considering," said. Noe! fare that she ts an exqutate beauty?" Don't yor
*rghe's all right" said Sagper. Foo hitchy for me though..."
"thank you," said Lady Marjorie coldly. "1 have been brougbe up to Fegard drinking between meals see, you prefer to fet sozzled in the dining-room, tT suppose. What's yours Milan Smith Poppy said she would ike a sherry, Well, it is to be oped that this high-lite narrative will Gwiadys over her cup of Kitchen fire, when it is Bthel's atter-oon out and. there's no chance of Groping in' at the local elnerma.—nate.
'The heiress, an ardent collector of village youth' for her fascist experiments, is eccentric enough, but mention soon becomes diverted from her to a couple of more sophisticated young women who have also decided io make this village pub their cache for, a convenient period, One of them hag turned down a matrimonially inclined duke at the eleventh hour incidentally, nine-tenths of the dramatic personal of the book are sired either by peers, earls or dukes for whom a special Tunatic asylum is described), the other avoids living with her husband who, in his cultivates his "pash for deb hotckpoteh, with one or two somewhat unconvincing local characters thrown in, forms the basis of an improbable narrative which includes
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