Baker's Daughter

SUSANNE--Johannes Buchholtz--Liveright ($2.50).

Susanne, while still on the presses, won first Danish prize in the 1931 Inter-Scandinavian Novel Contest, might therefore be considered Denmark's Novel-of-the-Year. Author Buchholtz is comparatively unknown in the U. S., but not so is his translator, Swedish Litterateur Edwin Bjorkman.

Susanne was a baker's daughter and she had a hard time at home. She was almost fed up enough to run away when young Otto Hellenberg, son of a rich ship tycoon, invited her to a party on his father's yacht, let her make herself ridiculous, tried to seduce her. That settled it: she left town the same night. Susanne had a good head on pretty shoulders and she had enough money to keep out of the gutter. As entire domestic staff for the household of a Chief of Police she got along beautifully till the Chief began to pat her on the back and his wife to bully her. But then young Otto came along again, still yearning. They were married in style. Tycoon Hellenberg, no snob, approved of his daughter-in-law, despised his attractive son as a shiftless waster. Susanne did her best to get Otto interested in business and succeeded fairly well, but she could not keep him from cheating. Finally she left him, went back to the bakery to live. There she thought it all out, came to the conclusion that Tycoon Hellenberg was right about his son, but that she loved him anyhow.

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