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PICK OF THE PAPERBACKS

Elinor Glyn knew how to make a book a top-seller

THREE WEEKS. By Elinor Glyn. Digit Books. 21 6d,

IVE a book a bad name

Gand

up soor the

folos past the million markt

By RICHARD LISTER

So it was with Elinor Glya's Betjemanity parson's daughter, For three wocks they had n Three Weeks, published in And one day in a hotel at 1907..

Banned at Eton, forbidden in every decent home, it yet top- ped the 1wo million within nine years. And I wonder how many of its myriad secretive readers, buying it in the hope of a 'cheap thrill, were sadly disappointed!

Just about

109 many,

suspect, us are now feeling te down after paying their 3s Bd for Lady C.

Not that Three Weeks is in the same category, It has the famous

tiger skin seduction scene, which was daring for the days when an exposed feminine calt was o sexual thrill. But it is only very naive romantle sjusb, o highlife day-dream.

FIRST AFFAIR

Lucerne, whore be พกร bored to distraction, he found dining next to him the most exotically beautiful creature 'he had ever seen.

GRAND LADY.

pasionato affair, and during i he grew from boy to man, and learned from her, among other things, how to oppreciate » · ture and ant. She opened his eyes for him and then abruptly left him; recalled, to the 'coun- try where, It tumed out, sho was Queen. The blow of the She cat by herself, and was

parting gave him a brainstorm

ifo walted on by her own servants, and he hovered between

nd while he ate hote

the table and death. the picked her way through a special meal so ex quisite that it might have been ordered, by James Bond him- sell.

him a son and it was thought Nine months later she bore

safe for tim to see her again

Dut Just as he arrived, all Who was she, this disturbing, ardour and passion in his · solitary grand lady with her uncle's yacht, she was mur- magnolia complexion, her heavy dered by her terrible husband Paul was left with tho resses of black hair, her eyes and that were blue—or was it-grey memory of this beautiful 'cron- or green? - and her stately ture, and the knowledge that graceful movements ("he could his son would one day. sit on

and appreciate · Bure throne, understand movement--was he not accus- Well, es doy-dreams go, it

to thoroughbreds tomed

and might have been a great deal able to judge of their action worse. and line?")

Her servants called her Imperial Highness and she was He had been sent abroad by married to a drunken brute of his parents to get over a calf a husband. But he was carly love affair with a bouncing forblåäm to ask, any more.

The story is easily told Paul Vertayne, son of an immensely rich baronet, was "young and fresh and foolish when this episode begin,” “a eplendid English animal of The best class."

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