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Show LOVE AMID WAR CITIES "Everyman's Land" Hao It's Background Back-ground in a Desolated Europe "Everyman's Land," by C. N. and A. M. Williamson (Doubleday, Page & Co.), is a romance characteristic of its two authors, who have in their earlier books taken their readers flying fly-ing on wings of love and adventure through most of Europe nnd parts of America, Asia nnd Africa. Events in the present story belong largely to the great war and take place round about Arras, Verdun, Ypres and oilier cities made newly famous by infamous invaders in-vaders of Franco and Belgium. A young Irish girl, Mary O'Malley, is the heroine of "Everyman's Land." Ostensibly, she herself tells the story of love at sight between her and the rich young American, Jimmy Beckott, and of how, belioving Jimmy lo be dead, she. faced by a dire emergency, presents herself to the kindly Becketts as tho affianced bride of their son. The story moves rapidly and ends happily, hap-pily, Mary's sin finding her out only with love. |