Professor's Progress

FIRST LESSON -- James Aston -- Knopf ($2).

Mr. Belfry was a Cambridge Don who had been creditably through the War but had never seen much life. A pathologically shy bachelor, he finally decided to take a holiday in Italy and do a thing or two while there was yet time. He liked being in Capri out of season and got along beautifully till he fell in love with buxom young Caterina. Then his troubles started. When he finally persuaded her to run off with him by night, the romantic row to the mainland nearly killed him. Then he found himself in the midst of a crazy colony of foreigners whose erotic antics were hardly a help in furthering his own love affair. Caterina remained so businesslike, not to say calculating, that Mr. Belfry was not nearly so great a sinner as he would have liked to be. But he had enough Anglo-Saxon marrow to keep from going completely spineless, and finally took himself back to Cambridge and a well-ordered life.

"James Aston" is a pseudonym; whose, U. S. readers will hardly find it worthwhile to bother their heads about.

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