Books: Gift from the Season

DEARLY BELOVED (202 pp.)—Anne Morrow Lindbergh—Harcourt, Brace & World ($3.95).

In the past Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea; Listen, the Wind) has demonstrated a minor but nearly flawless talent both for feminine perception and straight reporting. This time she has simply bitten off what it would have been better to eschew.

Dearly Beloved is an attempt to say something fresh about love and marriage. As the words of the wedding ceremony unfold—in italicized inserts—each of nine wedding guests has his say in sternly allotted chunks of interior monologue. The wistful Mother-of-the-Bride has seen her life measured happily out in...

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