THEY BROUGHT THEIR WOMENEdna FerberDoubleday, Doran ($2.50). Expert machinist of popular-priced fiction, Edna Ferber has long turned out best-selling goods in three different models: novels, short stories and, with collaborators, plays. Like all carefully machined products for mass consumption, Edna Ferber's stories are as competently finished, as conservatively up-to-date, as shiny with neat paintwork and chromium fittings, as unindividual as next year's family model, f. o. b. Detroit.
But styles in short stories are changing. Yesterday's vogue, "the story with the snapper at the end," says sharp-eyed Authoress Ferber, seems...
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