28 APRIL 1928, Page 25

SOUTHERN CHARM. By Isa Glenn. (Knopf. 7s. 6d.)— There is

something reminiscent of Miss Edith Wharton in this sympathetic study of a Southern widow, resident, with her two daughters and her sister, in New York. The mothell brought up in the old tradition, attempts to instil the gospel of " charm " into her girls. But they, children of their own generation, rebel ; and it is only at long last that Mrs. Habersham learns that " charm may come of an indifference to charm." Nothing much happens. But a scandal in which one of the daughters is involved supplies the connecting thread for a sensitive study of temperamental interaction, and for a satire on changing fashions of thought and habit that is not the less serious for being engagingly light in treatment.