Books: Saved from Success

RETURN I DARE NOT-Margaret Kennedy-Donbleday, Dor an ($2.50).

Hugo Pott was too successful too soon. Young Englishman of low beginnings but with a face that might have been his fortune, he had made money by writing a succession of theatrical hits.* London lionized him nearly to death: he never got enough sleep, was worn out by the continuous effort to be nice to everybody, not to let his work interfere with his social engagements. The story opens with his departure into the country for a weekend in no sense a vacation, for Hugo...

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