Books: New Books: Jul. 21, 1924

The following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion :

THE DIVINE LADY — E. Barrington —Dodd, Mead ($2.50). In this spirited semi-history of Lady Hamilton, truth is mixed with fiction in pleasing guise.

Its author has recreated with absorbing skill the atmosphere in which she lived, an amazing, colorful figure whose beauty raised her from the most ignoble depths to be the model and inspiration of the immortal Romney's genius who called her his "Divine Lady," to be the Lady of...

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