Miss Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in whichpoetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever andentertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she always displaysa quaint humor of expression and a quiet feeling of pathos which give atouch of active realism to all her writings. In "A Spinner in the Sun"she tells an old-fashioned love story, of a veiled lady who lives insolitude and whose features her neighbors have never seen. There is amystery at the heart of the book that throws over it the glamour ofromance.