Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

DREAMS That KEEP
THE SOUL AWAKE
E. Temple Thurston Discusses
Them in This Sequel TO His
Most Famous Nouel

What Is life without romance E.'
Templc Thurston tries to answer this
question in "The World of Wondertul
Reality" the delightful sequel to 'Ihe
City Of Beautiful Nonsense. The lat
ter book was romance. pure ana un
adulterated-the tale of the love ahair
between the daughter of London busl-
ness man and TN imaginative man OF
letters who can weave fantastic talcs
about the beauties of love and laugh
ter. Mr.. Thurston hesitatcd for years
to write the sequel, and it was not un'il
it occurred to him to paint the othcr
side of the shield that he yielded to the
impulse. The first book leaves his lovers
plighted to each other The second tcIis
how when they came down from the
mount of their vision and confronted
reality their marriage became impossl-
Bile. =,
The hero in explaining to the girl
| what life means at their first meeting in
| London after their return from Venice
where they were left in the earlier oooK'
says: steal that mans sleep. set MN
to work with his hands all night and ms
body will die of it. We'll. minds dlc.
Without sleep, without dreams, your
| soul dies. A materialist is a man VINO
never dreams. because he never Sleeps
1t is always day with him; lou pr
materialist il YOU d married ike that.
| That fact would have Kept you hwahe
all your life through 1t Wouiu naNe
become insomnia of the soul. A..
Rut the girl does marry IKE that'
and the noet dreamer seeks consolation
with a girl. poor, like himself, who
loves him above all things in the world
Tho hook ends without his knowing
what is in store for him. but the reader
is left in no doubt. That romance winch
means restful sleep with dreams, VIII VIII
tighten his life. while the other gir. VIII
suffer from insomnia of the soul pe-
cause she yields to materiailsm' hoo,.
Mr., Thurston has written pook
which is likely to rival the great pop
uloritv of it's predecessor. for the sim
nlc reason that he has written Il poetic
alleporv filled with tender sentiment
that appeals to the heart OF weary
world. ,,, AZ,
In David and Jonathan Mr.:
Tburston deals with a different sort OF
problem. 1t is study III the aI :
titudc of mind of modern woman t.
toward the modern and the prlmlelHy,
man, lie SnlpWrPthS tllV w. No. .
tbe woman on the uninhabited coast of
Africa, The inevitable happens Both
men fall in love with the woman; ran moG noGn h
ern man is finally convinced that the
woman vrm ap" is in love with the primitive
man, and when the crisis comes ,,o he eo, is
slladps the captain to take him TO the
, nearest settlement before resculng the
Others, and thus he escapes.
| To tell how Mr.. Thurston solves ms
nroblem would be to- destroy the in
terest Of the reader in the story 1t is
{ enough to say that he, reaches what hi
many modern women will regard as tn, the
only logical conclusion: A few Others
, viii viii be dissatisfied This book is of a
: very different type from the other, but
+ it is written with Mr. Thurston un'
q doubted mastery of the narrative style.
{ THE WORLD OF WONDERFUL REALITY
BY z. Temple Thurston. New York; D
t p1TPp APPIs'oh AND / CJToNATHAN BY F., Temple
. Thurston. New York: G. +. PUTNAM
! Sons, $1.50.