THE LITTLE MADELEINE (350 pp.) Mrs. Robert Henrey Dutton ($4).
French-born Madeleine Henrey, a highly intelligent woman, must have realized the risk she was running in writing the story of her childhood. All she had to work with were the short and simple annals of the poor. Yet The Little Madeleine is a triumph over the facts of life, a moving story of considerable charm and readability that is all the more remarkable be cause it is not about anything or anybody of seeming importance. What raises this artfully simple book above the commonplace is Author Henrey's deep respect for...
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