Arts: Good Books: Oct. 15, 1923

The following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion:

KANGAROO—D. H. Lawrence—Seltzer ($2.00). Kangaroo seems to be the best novel Mr. Lawrence has written since The Rainbow. There are interesting human beings in it, the prose is often of extraordinary beauty, the ferocious preoccupation with sex that disfigured Women in Love is much less in evidence. The story is that of Richard Somers, poet and essayist, who went to Australia with his wife because he had made up his mind that...