Books: King Charles's Head

MONOGRAM — G. B. Stern — Macmillan ($2.50).

Autobiographers who want to tell about themselves, without giving the whole show away, have discovered there is more than one way to kill a cat. Gertrude Stein did it by pretending it was Alice B. Toklas speaking. Norman Douglas did it by thumbing through a lifetime's collection of calling cards, telling what he could remember about each visitor. Last week Gladys Bronwyn Stern beat an even more ingenious path about the bush. Readers learned little from Monogram about the facts of Author Stern's life but heard plenty about her fancies and opinions. For her...

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