THE GENTLE LIBERTINEColetteFarrar & Rinehart ($2.50).
People who lump the modern French novelists as an indistinguishable group of coldly salacious virtuosos, are not only generalizing badly but forgetting Colette. Colette's novels never wander far from love, to many readers they are probably mild aphrodisiacs. But there is nothing cold or vicious about them. The people Colette is interested in are perfectly normal, perfectly "nice." Minne was a most romantic young Parisienne. When her mother thought she was doing her history lesson she was really thrilling over the newspaper account of the latest...
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