Claudine (Cont'd)

YOUNG LADY OF PARIS -- Colette -- Boni ($2.50). This sequel to Claudine at School continues Claudine's diary from the point where she left Montigny and her school girl days, went to Paris with her absent-minded widower father. Seventeen, with no companions but her cat Fanchette and an old servant whose trustiness was slightly surpassed by her bawdiness, with a father who rarely knew where she was or what she was doing, only Claudine's sturdy female common sense kept her out of serious scrapes. As it was, she had some minor adventures which a mother would have deprecated. When Claudine met her cousin Marcel she thought he was beautiful but girlish, soon discovered she was absolutely right. Her old schoolmate and adorer Luce turned up in Paris, living in the lap of sinful luxury. When Claudine visited Luce's apartment she was first impressed, then disgusted. She discovered the reason why young girls did not go about Paris un attended when she was followed and even pinched by perfect strangers. Cousin Marcel's middle-aged father, Renaud, did not much fancy his fancy son, having more normal tastes himself. His jaded experience, her thirsty ignorance, drew them together. She wanted to be his .mistress but he insisted on marrying her. You get the impression she will be his darling, but that for her it will be just a beginning.

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