Bright Green

A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE--Anne Green--Dutton ($2.50).

Literarily speaking, Brother Julian and Sister Anne Green are not on speaking terms. Unpopular Brother Julian writes serious psychological tragedies, about as intelligent and depressing as they come. Best-selling Sister Anne dashes off entertaining stuff about far-from-highbrow worldlings. Her conversational style is growing on her to such an extent that she no longer bothers very much to punctuate: " 'We are heading for the Luxembourg gardens, will you sit there with me for a moment, I'll drive you home, I bet that you dine at half-past seven.' . . ."

Claire was very modern. She and her brother thought alike in despising their penny-scraping, old-fashioned parents. Claire wanted to be a great painter; her brother wanted to be a great man-about-Paris. When Claire grudgingly visited her grandmother's country estate she expected to be amused occasionally, bored mostly. Her grandmother turned out to be salty, likable, but also a managing old person.

Before Claire saw what was going on, her grandmother had fixed up for her a mariage de convenance with a neighboring landowner's son, Antoine. Antoine and Claire hit it off like cat & dog. When he went through the form of proposing to her she accepted, just to spite him. Through an amusing series of mishaps they were mutually persuaded that they loved each other and would get married after all, in spite of their families' approval.

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