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THE LOVE OF JULIE BOREL—Kathleen Norris—Doubleday, Doran ($1).

All U. S. publishers except Doubleday, Doran & Co. have stopped the experiment of selling new books for $1. Motherly Kathleen Norris probably feels no handicap; her novels are sure sellers at any price to a mass public. Her latest is in her same old vein:

Pen Barnes was spoiled but a darling, and would get all the Barnes money some day, when her grandfather died. Meantime she had set her heart on marrying handsome but penniless Tony de la Ferronays, French professor at her nearby college. When Julie Borel, supposed daughter of a...