Atkerton, B. C.
THE JEALOUS GODS, A Processional Novel of the Fifth Century, B.C. (Concerning One Alcibiades)Gertrude AthertonLiveright ($2.50).
It was a far cry from the monkey glands of Mrs. Atherton's Black Oxen to The Immortal Marriage of Pericles and Aspasia. But classicism continues to outdo sensationalism, for the new novel concerns a spirited young Athenian who struggled to hold the fickle fancy of his fellow townsmen. Temperamentally he was unfitted for the struggleone night's drunken debauch culminating in a ribald mock-performance of a religious rite cost him years of exile, to say...