Passionate Puritan

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good in Poor dj. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid book, dust-soiling to top edge, review copy with original publisher's slip affixed to ffep, unsourced contemporary newspaper review glued to front pastedown, reviewer's name (Harry Taylor) and date received written at top of ffep; the jacket, unfortunately, has had a large chunk (about one-third of the surface area) torn off from the bottom of the front panel, and has several other tears and chips]. "Janet Carroll, a golden haired girl with a tempestuous heart and a modest mein, is the "passionate puritan" of [the author's] latest novel. Although an utterly charming heroine in the ordinary sense, Janet, like all of this well-known author's characters, is far more than an ordinary heroine. Moved by impulses, ambitions, and emotions which are amazingly true to life, she lives, in this book, a young of sharp contrasts and conflicting desires. [This is] a tender, sympathetic romance [which] shows a keen understanding and frank appreciation of the problems of young moderns in love." .