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Show English Prize Norel To Be Published Here ' Miss Cllve Arden, a young Kngllsh-woinan, Kngllsh-woinan, whose novel, "Hlnneia in Heaven." won the leonsrd Larson's ftrlaa in that country end Is to be pub-Ished pub-Ished this fall by Bobbs-Merrill, says that although It Is a "first novel." it Is far from being a first effort. "Writing." "Writ-ing." shs states In a letter, "has always al-ways been a erase with me. 1 beaaa a hen I waa 11 by planning a revision of 'Romeo and Juliet.' it was to have a happy ending. I remember. Since then I have always been trylna my hand at various kinds of authorship, except during the wsr, when I was loo busy Uvln life to try to write about It. I wrote this book on romantic ro-mantic rather than oa ' psychological lines, because I am a lover of the ro-nt ro-nt title, and I should hate to see It crushed out of life by cetn eerc tails m and cynicism. Why. 1 feel, must only the drab and the dull be termed "realistic? "real-istic? Thers Is beauty and romance in th world, and they, too. are reaL But at the same time I am sure that the romantic, adventurous story, to rinff true, must be built around real characters that rive and feel. A series Of exciting events happening to what one mlaht describe aa a set of ven-trtlloquiet'a ven-trtlloquiet'a dummies, doe sot make a centime romance." |