Books: Arlen into Wells

MAN'S MORTALITY—Michael Arlen— Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

Michael Arlen, who was not born yesterday, is sensitive to the shifts and veerings of popular sentiment. With the barometer dropping and economic-colored clouds massing in the sky, he needs no plebiscite to tell him that ladies in green hats had better come in out of the rain. In Man's Mortality there is not one perfumed whiff of Mayfair or Park Avenue; like a young H. G. Wells and without a backward glance Author Arlen has soared into the world of the future.

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