Books: Premier Blum's Sex System

MARRIAGE — Leon Blum — Lippincott ($2.50).

If Stanley Baldwin or Ramsay MacDonald had written Marriage, they would never have got to be Prime Ministers. Because Leon Blum is a Frenchman, authorship of this plain-speaking sex treatise, although known to Frenchmen for nearly 30 years, did him no political harm, may indeed have increased confidence in his ability to give leadership to an important French institution. Now, however, with Marriage still selling like wildfire. Premier Blum wishes people would forget he ever wrote the book. The national tittering is beginning to get...

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