IN THE COTTON BELT
GALLANT YOUNG FIGHTER A remarkably attractive novel, in which conditions in the American Cotton Belt are featured, is " Return Not Again," by Miss .'Vnnotte Heard. Clementine Wade, a daughter of tho poor whites, is stirred by a desire to lift her family out of the morass of squalor in which the " white trash " struggle for existence. In spite of the fact that her weakwilled young husband acts as a brake to her ambition, Clementine manages at first partly to achieve her aim, but circumstances eventually prove too much for her when cotton fields are ruined by flooding and her husband is arrested for murder. The story is absorbing, being brimful of incidents which are not only illuminating in themselves, but servo to impel the tale to its inevitable climax. Miss Heard knows her subject well and has the gift of narrative. If her descriptive work is, for some tastes, somewhat overdone, it is altogether an impressive novel and has many passages of real beauty. ;
" Keturn Not Again," by Annctto Heard, (Mullcr.)
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19380514.2.201.25.7.4
Bibliographic details
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)
Word Count
175IN THE COTTON BELT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries and NZME.
Log in