Books: Exhumer

SON OF WOMAN, The Story of D. H. Lawrence—John Middleton Murry—Cape & Smith ($3.50).

Few biographies are as searching as this one; few biographers would have gone on such a search. John Middleton Murry and the late David Herbert Lawrence were once friends; now Murry has written a book to tell the world why Lawrence was a false prophet. His half-apologetic epilog is addressed to the dead man: "The evil that you did, is done; and it is evil. You muddied the spring of living water that...

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