A Page of Biography

WHEN he was at Harvard, Mr. Powel was president of the Lampoon and an editor of the Advocate, and, although he was not an editor of the CRIMSON, he gave considerable promise of some day accomplishing something in a literary way. Now, in "the Virgin Queene," his early promise is materialized into a rather excellent fulfillment.

This pleasantly humorous, pleasantly satirical novel tells of a man of considerable intellectual brilliance and a fine sense of humor who had become tired of writing advertisements in New York City. He packed a grip and tore off to England to settle down in a manor house in the so-called Shakespere country. He procured a Man Friday of almost superhuman ability to help him run his Elizabethan home. His young daughter, fresh from American college arrives on the scene, and various complications, including a Shakespere discovery of international importance follow to carry the tale through to the inevitable return of the central character to his advertising firm in New York.

It is no way a "significant" or "important" novel, but the fantastic story will keep even a very particular reader smiling through a pleasant three or four hours.