DOUBTFUL JOYElizabeth Jenkins Donbleday Doran ($2).
Last year addicts of horror stories hailed Elizabeth Jenkins' Harriet as a masterpiece of its kind. Harriet told the story of a pathetic, dim-witted woman driven to death by four handsome youngsters who were fearsome only in their unconsciousness of their guilt. Critics saw tricks of style and manner that suggested Author
Jenkins had gone to school to Henry James, put her down as a writer of subtlety and power. Last week Author Jenkins offered a novel that gave proof, at least, of her versatility: a breezy little romance...
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