KITTY. By Warwick Deeping. (Cassell. 7s. ad.)- " Highbrow "
readers who like modem problems and Freudian psychology will do well to leave Mr. Warwick Deeping's novels alone. On the other hand, those who like a warm human interest combined with details of domestic life and of a small commercial enterprise will delight, in his new story. The plot is concerned with a snobbish mother full of the traditions of life in a county family and a girl wife forced by post-War conditions to earn her bread in her mother's tobacco shop. The two struggle for the possession of the paralysed Alex- respectively their son and husband. How Kitty kidnaps Alex and starts the first riverside dancing hall-the date is just after the War-is set forth with all this author's accustomed interest and detailed observation of the life of the middle classes. Kitty and her vulgar but golden-hearted mother are attractive figures, but Mrs. St. George-mother of the bone of contention, Alex-is a mere lay figure on which the most unamiable qualities are hung like a ready-made coat.
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