Sensitive Youth SUMMER'S LEASEE. Arnot Robertson Houghton Mifflin ($2.50).
On its surface Summer's Lease is a well-told story of a well-worn character: the sensitive young man. As such it is distinguished by good wit and by still better observation. But it is also a study of family life, early 20th Century vintage, almost as cruelly incisive as The Way of All Flesh, and more compassionate. Its essential theme: a human being's gradual discovery of the universality of pain, and of the fortitude with which it is sometimes met.
Douglas Caise's parents were both brilliant...