One-Note Man

AN ALTAR IN THE FIELDS--Ludwig Lewisohn--Harper ($2.50). Last week nobody was much excited to learn that Ludwig Lewisohn had written another novel. A humorless and determined individualist, Author Lewisohn has gradually accustomed most U. S. readers to treat his output with restrained respect. A solemn harping on the string of self-expression, An Altar in the Fields tells nothing new about Lewisohn, life or love.

Dick and Rose met in an arty Manhattan boarding house. Dick wore: spectacles, came from the Middle West, "wanted to write"; Rose was a pretty Southerner who thought she could act. Instead they got married. Dick changed his investments, and the Coolidge boom kept him thinking he was clever and well off. Rose turned their first attempt at a child into an abortion. When the crash came they went to Paris to save money. There Rose got in with people Dick disliked. She and Dick quarreled. But inertia, a wise doctor and common sense brought them together again. They went back to the U. S., settled on a little farm. Dick no longer wanted to write. Rose was going to have a baby. . . .

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