Very Grand Tour

NYMPH ERRANT--James Laver -- Knopf.

Publisher Alfred Knopf personally wrote the blurb for this light-minded satire--an honor he usually reserves for more serious, "worthy" works. Says he : "I have never published a first novel with such a feeling of absolute assurance in its success." Sexy Artist Arno (New Yorker) has drawn a faithful portrait of the heroine for the jacket. If you wish to be entertained and hope to be a little shocked, Nymph Errant should give you at least half your wish.

Evangeline was young, beautiful, full of curiosity about Life. She had just finished school at Lausanne and was supposed to go straight home to north Oxford, to her drearily respectable aunt. But Andre, a lesser Ziegfeld of Paris, happened to share her compartment. That was how it all started. Evangeline went to Deauville with Andre, to Montparnasse with Alexei, with Heinz to the Nudist colony at Himmelheim, with Count Ferdinand to Venice. Sold to Tycoon Constantine, she yachted comfortably to Smyrna just in time to meet the pillaging Turkish army. It looked then as if she might have to spend the rest of her life in a harem, but boredom, not shame, helped her to escape, with the help of a pure-minded U. S. sanitary engineer. Finally just a year late, she reached north Oxford at last. Aunt Ermyntrude was not at all upset, was still expecting her. Without once calling a spade a spade, Author Laver manages to give the impression that a good deal of spadework has been done.

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