Show TIlE THE GREAT MIRAGE keen satire a lively sense of W WITH humor and much real knowledge of life Janice James L L. Ford in his novel of New York newspaper ex cx- cx The Great Mirage Harper fc Brothers Just published by the Harpers Han Har pers contrasts the actual unto unto- mantle but satisfying j average existence of the people who count In iii a big big- city with the false notion notion no no- tion of metropolitan life with Its startling startling start start- ling contrast of wealth and poverty built up In unsophisticated minds by sensational Sunday newspapers There are pathos anti and hard common sense fun and sharp criticism In this story of a a. clover clever country girl who goes from a little village In the Mohawk valley to in iii a humble position on the womans woman's page of a great NewYork New New- NewYork York dally daily Kato Kate Craven had lost host her father In her childhood and she and her mother a conscientious little woman of the Puritan type had long managed to live decently on a little But Kate read the Sunday newspapers and be became became be- be came discontented She wanted a career Naively she believed that New NewYork NewYork York contained but two tio classes of people the people the very very rich and the very poor that the fashionable leaders of women's movements were really GS as In Intellectual intellectual in- in as they pretended to be that the tho sympathy bestowed upon emotional criminals by the tho newspapers newspaper's sob specialist was really time the higher ethics In short she accepted unreservedly the great mirage |