Woman Stoops

THE PROVINCIAL LADY IN LONDON-- E. M. Delafield--Harper ($2.50).

One of the few ways in which clever women can endear themselves to men is by playing down to them. Clever men understand this is mere humoring on the clever woman's part, but they like it. E. M. Delafield (nee Edmee Elizabeth Monica de la Pasture; now Mrs. Arthur Paul Dashwood) is good at humoring her readers, who liked her Diary of a Provincial Lady, should like The Provincial Lady in London still more.

As before, the materfamilias-diarist has a husband, two children, temperamental Mademoiselle and house in the country on her hands. But her first book, written in snatched moments from household tasks and village society, has begun to sell; a Career dawns. When the children are away at school she takes a flat in London, ventures into literary society, even attends a Literary Conference at Brussels. Between whiles she struggles gamely against the never-ending havoc of domesticity. At the end she is, as usual, looking for a cook, but next year, she says, she would like to go to the U. S.

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