Books: Bohemienne

THE LITTLE LESS—Ashie Pharall—Appleton ($2.0Valentine Forrester, a clear-eyed Bohemienne, finds herself attached to a post-war commission in hectic Vienna, where high living overcrusts the depths of misery and shillings loom large. Kit Mallory, cosmopolitan philanderer and frankly short on scruples, finds his languid way to her well guarded heart. How she chooses between this man, who lies neither to himself nor to her, and Paul Wychart, brotherly Virginian, makes an illuminating tale. Miss Pharall is plausible in her picture of a feminine heart both fine and philosophic. She has a knack for reproducing conversation, shunning mere smartness and the convention of constantly calling a spade a filthy thing of stench infernal. She does, however, find it easier to commence than to close the psychological complications.