The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

TIME tide have carried Hervey Allen to Felicity Hall. Somerset, Bermuda, where he plants vegetables, plays with his daughters, and for the past three years has been at work on a big novel. A midshipman at Annapolis, a shavetail on the Mexican border, a first lieutenant in the A. E. F. (and wounded), he saw plenty of action before he found felicity and before his volumes of verse and his biography of Poe made his name known in letters.