YOUNG MR. DISRAELI—Elswyth Thane —Harcourt, Brace ($3).
"No novelist could possibly improve on the drama of Disraeli's life exactly as he lived it." Author Elswyth Thane (Mrs. William Beebe) has a neat thesis which demands more than ordinary biographical skill, but readers of Young Mr. Disraeli last week agreed that she had it. Her biography of Disraeli read like a novel, and a good one. Not a full-length life, it ended with her hero's young manhood. Like a good novelist, Author Thane knew when and where to stop.
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