Books: Woman Stoops

THE PROVINCIAL LADY IN LONDON— E. M. Delafield—Harper ($2.50).

One of the few ways in which clever women can endear themselves to men is by playing down to them. Clever men understand this is mere humoring on the clever woman's part, but they like it. E. M. Delafield (née Edmée Elizabeth Monica de la Pasture; now Mrs. Arthur Paul Dashwood) is good at humoring her readers, who liked her Diary of a Provincial Lady, should like The Provincial Lady in London still more.

As before, the materfamilias-diarist has a husband, two children, temperamental...