Books: First Mates Meeting

WESTWARD PASSAGE—Margaret Ayer Barnes—Houghton Mifflin ($2.50).

It all happened in a week. First day out from Cherbourg, Olivia was bored at the prospect of another comfortable winter in Chicago with her middle-aged husband Harry. She was nearly 40 herself. Suddenly Olivia discovered that Nick, her first husband, was a fellow-passenger. They had not met for ten years, since the divorce. Now Nick was a famous author. Olivia had two more children. They were glad to see each other, got dangerously excited talking over old times.

Nick, unlike Harry, was a thrilling person to be with—Olivia had forgotten how thrilling. She forgot the...

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