Laughter Limited. By /cma Putnam. (Chapman and Dodd.
3s. 6d.)
This delightful novel is a little spoiled by American slang. rhe superficial defect, however, is as nothing when we consider the essential quality of the book. A New England girl accustomed, with the hindra c'° of her father, to the keeping of a village shop, goes to Los Angeles to seek her fortune on the films. She is very young, very innocent, and very witty. We do not have to take the writer's word for all this, her charm proves itself. The reader sees Film Society (Continued= page 360.1
through her clever, sensible eyes, and sees it to be like most other Societies—a mixture. The heroine has the misfortune to fall in love with a scoundrelly actor, the good fortune to see him drunk, and the good sense to marry a solid man of business. She makes the reader happy for at least two hours and he leaves her happy ever after.
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