NURSE ADRIANENorah C. James Covici, Friede ($2.50).
The late Enoch Arnold Bennett, with his appetite for facts-of-modern-life, would have enjoyed this book. Nurse Adriane is a love story, but its setting, a big London hospital, is what will hold any Bennett-like reader. Against this fact-laden background almost any story would do. Authoress James writes her straightforward narrative in straightforward London (as opposed to Oxford) English; though her cases are emotional she deals with them like a competent surgeoncutting neatly to the essential, never faltering into sloppiness.
Adriane had served her long,...
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