FLAPPERS IN LOVE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 83, 4 October 1924, Page 17

FLAPPERS IN LOVE.

The Maid of Stonystream." By Faith Baldwin, London: Sampson, Low, Marston, and Co.', Ltd. (Through . Robertson and Mullens, Melbourne)

There is laughter, romance, and tears m this quaint story of an American seaside resort. Life as it is lived in the country and in the city of New York is aptly. described. There are several characters that will make individual appeal. The "young love that rides gaily as some slender. knight" is supplied by a wholly charming, audacious, red-haired flapper named Jane, and one Jerry, a straight-limbed sturdy American soldier, and their little love affair is a refreshing change from the accustomed romances of the modern youth. They are simple, lovable, unaffected flapper and stalwart, reliable youth. Then there are Elaine and Laurel, two members of an aristocratic family, living next. door to the "catch of the season," one Robin Hood. Elaine captures jhis idealistic fancy, while his mother sighs' and regretfully wishes it, had been Laurel, the grey-eyed, near-hoydenish, laughter-lov-ing child of nature whose ideal is the stately, languid Elaine, and who would suffer anything that happiness might come to her idol. Robin and his Elaine are happy enough until there arrives at the resort a handsome French musician, Etienne de Gabriac, who sees in the still, serene beauty of the American girl the direct antithesis to his passionate, dig-' turbing nature. He wins Elaine from Robin, and the warm-hearted Laurel helps more than Robin cares to admit in retaining sanity and a clear outlook from the blow. -There is a John Wynne in the tale, too, a lovable old novelist who' has become a recluse; but the dependence of Robin, the boyish charm of Laurel, and the loyal affection of the people bring him willingly 'out of retirement, and once. more John Wynne becomes known. He it is' who helps Robin to the awakening that the Laurels of the world are more than worth-the Elaines. This is an' entertaining, well written novel.