Books: Jesuitry

SHE KNEW SHE WAS RIGHT—Jesse Lynch Williams—Scribner's ($2.50).

Death came to Author Jesse Lynch Williams last September. He left this book, a quietly satirical study of religious dogmatism. Greatly daring, Author Williams has made his dogmatist-villain a woman, and a beauty.

Hilda Harlan, very rich, very comely, very sure of herself, always got what she wanted but thought God's will was hers. She had been made pious at an early age and never got over it. When she married Cope Harlan, penniless professor of economics, her family disapproved but had to give in;...

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