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WHEN I GROW RICH — Ethel Sidgwick — Harpers ($2.50).

Occasionally the name of Author Sidgwick is mentioned in this country, only to be vaguely connected with the best-selling novelist Sedgwick (with an "e"), and dismissed. Some few, however, cherish an entire shelf of first editions by her with an "i," thus reflecting the wide popularity Mrs. Sidgwick holds in England. Closely related to the Bensons (A. C. and E. F.), she belongs to a literary tradition of quiet humor, leisurely manner (461 close-packed pages to the present volume, the average modern novel boasting some leaded 300)....

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