Flower Love

FLOWER PHANTOMS--Ronald Fraser--Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Delicate, sensuous Judy made her lover liken her to the loveliest flowers, exotic ones with iridescent stems and golden caps rather than the sturdy blossoms of the fields. She drank in his literary phrases as the plants in her hothouse drank the warm, steamy air under glass. Until she really believed that her true relations should be with fern and tree and flower, not with her practical family and tiresome, boreal Roland. After charmingly imagined conversations with a philosophical water-lily and passionate adventures with an Oriental orchid, however, she turns back from this sowing of wild buds to the more dependable arms of the man. . . . The spice of mockery blended with creamy whimsicality in a mold of sophisticated prose poetry is apparently the staple produce of Author Ronald Fraser, young and English, who last year charmed international esthetes with Landscape With Figures, his first novel to be published in the U. S.