‘THE LARK LEGACY'

Evening Star, Issue 22004, 13 April 1935, Page 27

‘THE LARK LEGACY'

Mrs Alice Hegan Rice has entertained thousands with ‘ Mrs Wigg.s of the Cabbage Patch ’ anl * Lovey Alary.’ She has a rare and sympathetic understanding of life, and describes the tragedies, the comedies, the difficulties, and the relationships of humanity in a way that is excelled by few novelists. In this hook the young wife of an elderly professor is left a legacy. Other relatives who have not lieen remembered are chagrined. The legatee, much to the professor’s horror, rents for the summer, a house and ear at. an Atlantic seaside resort and invites the disgruntled ones to. come and stay with them. In the circumstances the professor’s wife needed all the buoyancy of her buoyant temperament. The cottage was picturesque but inconvenient, the partitions wero thin, the rooms damp and draughty, and the plumbing negligible. Then there was the thought of the relatives and the difficulty of adjusting conditions to create as little inconvenience as possible for the studious and aloof professor. Tt was a risky experiment. but it turned out surprisingly well, and it made a new man of the professor. _ Mrs Rice’s sense of humour adds bright touches to an entertaining book. The publishers of ‘ The Lark Legacy ’ are Hodder and Stoughton.