THE STORY OF A LAKENegley Farson Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).
The career of Negley Parsonathlete, munitions salesman, aviator, foreign correspondent, loverhas been, if nothing else, a testament to his superb physique. As readers galloped through his best-selling autobiography, The Way of a Transgressor, their wonder grew how a man could avoid cracking up even halfway through such adventures.
Last fortnight Negley Farson did at last crack upbut only fictitiously, in a semi-autobiographical novel about a famous U. S. newspaperman who ends up drinking himself to death in a backwoods cabin in British Columbia. An awkwardly constructed, Lost Generation novel, teeming with love affairs, ineffective...
