I LOVE MISS TILLI BEANIlka ChaseDoubleday ($2.50).
To a year when mayhem, murder, dipsomania, drug addiction, perversion and incest are much commoner in U.S. novels than in U.S. life, Ilka (In Bed We Cry) Chase has contributed a novel whose muted prurience is almost prim. The story concerns the adventures of two U.S. Quakeresses* named Bean. They are natives of Lanesboro, Pa., where the Widow Bean's father keeps a general store. There, after a week of whirlwind courtship, an itinerant spaghetti salesman named Rechetti marries the widow and whisks her and her daughter, Tilli,...