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The Heart Has Its Reasons: The Memoirs of the Duchess of Windsor. 372 pp. New York: David McKay Company. $5.00

Though she never became the consort of a reigning king of England, Wallis Windsor has not lived without fealty. One of the largest countries in the world, Suburbia, has looked up to her example for twenty years, and it is for the ladies of this prosperous realm that she has now fashioned the heroine of her memoirs. A whole sheaf of illustrations show her town and country houses in France, their garden furniture, butlers’ pantries, floral arrangements, etc.; and the pictures of the Duchess herself present a lady who might only be the smartly tailored belle of a Michigan country club, and not the international hedonist who arrives and departs so punctually in the newsreels.

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The Heart Has Its Reasons: The Memoirs of the Duchess of Windsor. 372 pp. New York: David McKay Company. $5.00

Though she never became the consort of a reigning king of England, Wallis Windsor has not lived without fealty. One of the largest countries in the world, Suburbia, has looked up to her example for twenty years, and it is for the ladies of this prosperous realm that she has now fashioned the heroine of her memoirs. A whole sheaf of illustrations show her town and country houses in France, their garden furniture, butlers’ pantries, floral arrangements, etc.; and the pictures of the Duchess herself present a lady who might only be the smartly tailored belle of a Michigan country club, and not the international hedonist who arrives and departs so punctually in the newsreels.