GOLDRING, DOUGLAS. Margot’s progress. *$1.90 (1½c) Seltzer
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The story of a social climber. Maggie Carter, a grocer’s daughter from Montreal, goes to Paris with three thousand dollars capital and there becomes Margot Cartier. Her small capital is to tide her over the brief period until her beauty, which is her real asset, has won her an advantageous marriage. And it all works out as she planned. Thru the Falkenheims, rich Jews whom she meets on the boat, she is introduced to London society. Renewal of acquaintance with an old Canadian connection gives the right suggestion of social background, and she becomes Lady Stokes. But the marriage does not turn out well. An elderly admirer dies and leaves her a legacy, which provides both the means to freedom and the excuse for a quarrel with her husband. She is divorced and goes to Paris, where the outbreak of the war finds her. At the close there is promise of a second marriage with a man she loves.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 52:67 S ’20 700w
“Vigorous, varied, and colourful.”
+ Dial 69:432 O ’20 60w
“The story is interesting, vigorously told, with an unusual power of vivid, direct presentation, fired too with a nervous intentness. But after all, it is not a book that gives one much comfort. One concedes its merits, but without enthusiasm. One feels, on finishing it, like turning to Ali Baba or Cinderella or Lord Dunsany as an antidote.” C. F. L.
+ − Grinnell R 16:355 F ’21 220w