Abstract

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The article presents information on several books. "Jack Robinson," is by George Beaton. Clues to this ingenious first novel lie not only in the meaning of the quotation from "Saison en Enfer" given on the titlepage, but also in the fact that a child lives in two worlds, that both of these are real, and that more often than not the two are one and cannot be separated--a fact which Hollywood in its recent production of "Alice" so painfully forgot, but which Beaton in what he calls a picaresque novel well recognizes. "Wedding Song," by David Burnham is the novel of intrigue which is back--in a modern version of course, stripped like a functional facade of all ornament, and showing, like architecture, the smooth, hard, anonymous effect of the machine age.