THE HOUSE OF LEEGertrude AthertonAppleton-Century ($2.50).
If the War Between Men and Women, foreseen by the mad fancy of James Thurber, comes to pass, Gertrude Atherton will be the Stonewall Jackson of the rebel females. The House of Lee, a tale of a girl of 22, her mother of 40, her grandmother of 60, is not so noteworthy because of its strident feminism as because of its rampant, 82-year-old author.
Eight years after the gold rush, Gertrude Franklin Horn was born in San Francisco of a drunken father, a hysterical mother. At 17, gay, giddy Gertrude eloped with one of her divorced...
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