Elegance

THE ROMANTIC LADY--Michael Arlen len--Doran ($2.50). Another volume of eloquent elegance and luxurious naughtiness from "the Harold Bell Wright of the sophisticates."The Romantic Lady, like These Charming People, is a collection of four short stories--one of them not very short. The Romantic Lady itself is the story of a lady of surpassing charm who chooses her husbands somewhat at random and divorces them with equal facility. Fay Richmond is about a man and a girl, and the realization of their love which came too late--but not too late for a still later fleeting consummation. Consuelo tells of another dazzling woman whose honor--and the physical well-being of whose illicit suitor--were saved by the opportune appearance of a cigar with a long, undisturbed ash. The Romance of Iris Poole is the tale of Red Antony and his brother Roger, of the revenge of Antony upon Roger, whom he hated even as he admired him. Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyumjian, Armenian) is reported to be in the U. S.