Ambivalent

"THE STRONGER GOD--Eric Waring --Brentano's ($2). Heroines called "gentlemen" have been the vogue. They combine fascination and sportsmanship, but not ladylike morals and manners. Now comes Freya Von Herrenstein trying bravely to be both a gentleman and a lady. For ten years she passes as her dead twin brother, Kurt--at home, at military school, in the Uhlans, in gay 19th Century Vienna. Love, of course, is the deity referred to by the title. The report, "Missing in action," is her prothalamium. . . . Author Waring is not just clever. He writes with scrupulous attention to his main obligations--sharp characters, vivid atmosphere, swift plot and plenty of it. Grant his one demand, Freya's incredible ambivalence, and he repays with corking entertainment.