First Swinnerton
THE MERRY HEART−Frank Swinnerton−Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A "promising first novel" is distinctly more the vogue than "another book by. . . ." Frank Swinnerton, long-accepted writer of suave character studies, also wrote a First Novel, and it won him "immediate recognition as a young writer of distinction." Published now in this country, The Merry Heart is subtitled "A Gentle Melodrama," involving as it does the death of villain and the charming capers of a gay, cynical young hero. The complicated plot is only less fortuitous than that of Swinnerton's latest novel,...