Books: Chaste

SERENA BLANDISH—A Lady of Qual-ity— Doran ($2.50). “Though it is better to marry a young man, best to marry a rich man, next best to marry a distinguished man, it is better to marry a crossing sweeper than not to marry at all,” said Countess Flor di Folio to Serena Blandish when, struck by the girl’s beauty, poverty and discretion, she made her a member of her household and launched her upon her desperate enterprise. She met many men who made proposals to her but not of the kind she wanted to hear. For, although Serena was so beautiful that no man could resist her, such was her docility that she could not resist any man. Many seduced, but only the butler befriended her. When, at last, she drove to church on her wedding day, the Countess Flor di Folio sat at the head of the aisle on the left. At the head of the aisle on the right sat a full-blooded Nicaraguan Indian. The English Lady of Quality who wrote this book with incomparable chastity is said to have possessed as much beauty and goodwill, and to have encountered as many difficulties as Serena herself.