THE FLOWERING THORN

City bred -- country won -- such is the theme of this story of the hardboiled London society girl, who adopts an orphan boy and moves, with him, to the country. There's sparkle and a certain shrewd honesty about the story that keeps it from being sentimental -- and yet there is enough of sincere sentiment to appeal to those who find the back to the land movement appealing to ""their better natures"".