Books: Recent & Readable: Oct. 7, 1940

THE WHITE CLIFFS—Alice Duer Miller—Coward-McCann ($1). The inside story, told in verse, of a Yankee lady, who, having married an Englishman, settled in England, and lost her husband in World War I, now faces the possibility of losing her English son. A book of grade-A doggerel, it makes a warmhearted, knowing and timely appraisal of the English that will make sense to both Anglophiles and Anglophobes.

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