Books: Disappointed Bridge

THE BRIDGE—Naomi Royde-Smith— Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

In James Joyce's Ulysses Stephen Dedalus defines a pier as "a disappointed bridge." The bridge Andra Pontifex tried to build was also disappointed. Andra married Everard Pontifex, clergyman widower with a large family, without thinking much about it one way or the other. He was a kindly soul; she liked having her own house and living in the English countryside she had always known. Perhaps she would never have realized she was not happy had not her child been born dead and the doctor told her she...