Virginia Creepers

RAIN ON THE MOUNTAIN--Green Peyton--Little, Brown ($2). Critics who cocked their ears at Author Peyton's (Green Peyton Wertenbaker) Black Cabin (TIME, Jan. 2, 1933) will keep them cocked at Rain on the Mountain but will not yet give tongue. Like his first novel, Rain on the Mountain is a minor-keyed story about Charlottesville. Va. girls and boys. It too has rainbow overtones that lift it from provincialism, promise a pot of gold over the hill, or at least fairer weather. Hunter Armistead and Cabell Blake have been schoolfellows and are still cronies, in spite of Cabell's Byronic pose that he cares for nobody. Before he introduces Hunter to Joan, Cabell warns Hunter that she is his girl, promises to kill him if he tries to sleep with her. But Cabell sleeps with her himself. When her brother finds out and threatens to shoot him, Cabell will not be bullied into marrying her. Hunter tries to persuade him, even admits he wants to marry Joan himself. But Cabell is stubborn. So is Joan's brother. So Hunter marries her after all.

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