VICTORIA GRANDOLETHenry BellamannSimon & Schuster ($2.50).
The latest novel of Henry Bellamann (Kings Row, TIME, April 15, 1940) is a mystery. What wrecked the Grandolets' marriage? The reader cannot be sure, and perhaps the author himself was far from certain.
The old plantation of the Grandolets had never had a mistress so seemingly well fitted for it as Victoria. It had never had an owner so seemingly well equipped to run it as her pleased, practical, 26-year-old husband, Niles. The generations of Grandolets who had cleared its thousands of acres, raised sugar on it, gone...