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The Jingle Driver. By H. Clayton East. (Alston Rivers: $.s.

net.) The story its told by the jingle...driver herself, and the opening quest for cob and• trap is -well drawn, as is the drive home with the newly-acquired " Betty." The theme is a little slender for a full length novel, and the attempts to- realize the psychology Dartrboor are nOt'sufficiently subtle for the earnestness of their presentment. •