THE CAPTAIN'S WIFE Storm Jameson Macmillan ($2.50).
Margaret Storm Jameson's Yorkshire novels are as tough and interrelated as the roots of a bush. Latest offshoot, The Captain's Wife, is not part of her big novel-in-progress, The Mirror in Darkness, but it shares some of the same characters. And they, like all the berries on Storm Jameson's bush, are as bittersweet as ever.
Sylvia Russell, the captain's wife, in this sharply competent book, hated her daughter Hervey's easy-mannered husband because he was without character, "the most damning thing a Yorkshireman can say about man or woman." This leisurely, detailed portrait of...