SOURCE: "Miss Boyle's Irony," in New York Times Book Review, November 11, 1934, p. 6.

In the following review of My Next Bride, Walton accuses Boyle of focusing on trivial matters and failing to meet her potential.

Several years' ago Kay Boyle published a short story, "Art Colony," which contained the kernel of this ruefully ironic novel. Outlines which she sketched briefly then have been filled in, and Sorrel, the leader of the colony, has moved from the shadowy wings to the centre of the stage. Miss Boyle, incidentally, makes the conventional statement that all her characters are imaginary, but Sorrel, with his tunics and sandals, his craftwork, his dead wife—in the short story she was his sister—who wanted to teach the whole world to dance, so inevitably suggested Raymond Duncan that one may be pardoned a polite skepticism.

The seamier side of idealism receives scant shrift from Miss...