STRANGE WOMAN. By Elmer Davis. (Methuen. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Elmer Davis
tackles a difficult and pressing problem in his novel, Strange Woman—what is a woman to do when she has brought up her children and assisted her husband to achieve success and yet, at forty, is young, vigorous and full of creative energy ? Lucy Merriam attempts to fulfil herself by encouraging her husband, the President of a pro- vincial American 'University, in his passionate pursuit of Dagmar Dahl, a Grand Opera prima donna. But this astute lady, in her own words, will not be forced into a loveless marriage to gratify the creative idealism of her husband's first wife. Finally Lucy and her husband content themselves with a further effort to' perfect the University and Lucy decides to try her hand at writing. Lucy and Dagmar Dahl are interest- ing, although exaggerated, types of the efficient wife and the cosmopolitan artist. But the theme is well, if not, very originally, worked out.
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