Newspaper Wife

YOUNG MAN OF MANHATTAN--Katharine Brush--Farrar & Rinehart ($2).

Toby McLean is a sports writer for a Manhattan daily. He is clever, well-liked, good-looking, but he has "the disease of tomorrow." So popular is he with his fellow-craftsmen that once when he is lying hors de combat in a Turkish bath in some alien city, his editor receives no less than four accounts of a single baseball game, all signed with Toby's name. When he is covering the Dempsey-Tunney fight in Philadelphia he meets Ann Vaughn, newspaperwoman; they fall in love and get married in short order.

Ann is talented and ambitious; she writes magazine articles; soon she is making more money than Toby. He returns to drink, she pays the bills, they quarrel. Finally they separate: she to Hollywood on assignment, he to Florida to cover a baseball training camp. One day he gets a long-distance call from Manhattan: Ann, returned to the city, has been poisoned by some whiskey Toby bought while drunk in a strange speakeasy and left behind in the apartment by mistake. As Ann slowly recovers, Toby gets to work in earnest, sells some stories, writes a novel. The outcome, in suspense up to the last page, few will be so cynical as to disallow. It is a book calculated to make old men sigh, young men dreamy, newspaperwomen reminiscent.

The Author. Katharine Brush (Mrs. H. Charles Winans) was born at Middletown, Conn., is 28, pretty, a bright writer. At 17 she went to work for the Boston Traveler, writing interviews, theatrical reviews, a daily cinema column. Two years later she married, went to live in Ohio.

She has divorced, remarried. In 1923 she sold her first story to Munsey's Magazine. She lives in Manhattan, has one son to whom her new book is dedicated. Other books: Glitter, Little Sins (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927), Night Club.

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