Clerk's Wife

A NOTE IN MUSIC--Rosamond Lehmann--Holt ($2.50).

Grace was a big woman, nearly middleaged, not pretty, a messy dresser. But her husband Tom, fussy fat clerk in an English provincial town, loved her in his own way, realized vaguely she was of finer mould than he. Grace's only child had been born dead, she could never have another. She had almost given up expecting anything to happen. She ate too many chocolates, went too often to the cinema. Then one day she met young Hugh Miller, nephew of Tom's boss. Hugh was an aristocrat who did everything well, even wandering. They met only a few times. He thought she was queer but rather nice, soon forgot her when he went away. Her memory of him lasted the rest of her life.

On this thin thread of realism Rosamond Lehmann has strung pearls.

Rosamond Lehmann, young (under 30), is the wife of Painter Wogan Phillips, son of Ship Tycoon Sir Laurence Phillips. Her father was on the staff of Punch, but better known as one of England's most famed oarsmen. Rosamond Lehmann has written one other book: Dusty Answer.

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