New-York tribune., 1922-10-08

sDoGBTING CASTLE. BY Elinor Chipp.
Bqni & Liveright.
JsIsTTERS TO a DJINN. BY Grace Earring
stone. The Century Company.
RICHARD: BY Marguerite Bryant. Dut:-
ANN AND HER MOTHER BY O. Doug
las. George Fl. Doran Company.
pTN HERE is a unity OF design
il Elinor Chipp's Doubling
Castle" rarely found in frst
novel. The story opens with
. description of the funeral Of Nathan
Baldwin. At the mourning Baldwin
reiatives pass in panoramic review the
reader sees their clannish, arch con-
ventionality and senses the individual
hypocrisy The chief mourner, Gloria,
radically different. She is Nathan,s
ffanddaughter, offspring of his daugh-
ter Rosemary and married adven-
surer.
Gloria Is not In favor with the
legitimate Baldwins, firmly ,incrusted
n Puritannical righteousness. The
hushed-up peccadillos of her elders are
unknown to her, and by the right :of
seniority they hold the whip. Irene,
he handsome settled wife of Richard
baldwin, invites the lonely eighteen
year-old Gloria to come and stay with
them. Propinquity does d tho rest.
Gloria, asa the lovely embodiment Of
youth, challenges the approaching
afternoon of Richard's life. Quite sud-
denly he wants to be back again to
the morning of his years. And there
is Gloria with outstretched hands to
stake him. ess
As aeBaldwin he reverenees respect
ability, apds Irene. is the love Of his
tct ny Rsst hn rfu IT, y
again, and Gloria. Irene's poise is
admirable. When the feeling comes
that she lives under q neglect too
great to bear she slips quietly away.
Richard Baldwin hurries after his
wife. Gloria is sent away. At first
Richard goes frequently to her lodg-
ings, but as Eene, once sexually offish
becomes ga woman filled with love
sensuous, replete," he begins to find
Gloria nuisance.
Now Gloria becomes the pursuer
for hers is love that can edo ali
things but forget" AS she tramp.
the London streets hoping for feetinl
glimpses Of Richard, she is youth
blind, unheeding, eager, ardent
selfess. 1t is the tragedy of TIL,
flower that trusted to the constanc,
of fall sunshine. For Richards low
Is hkesfail sunshine. decreasing dali.
in fervor- ~
II fault there Be with the tale a i
that the author lacks sustained effor
In the telling of it. In her eagernes
TO get on with good story she to-
often lapses into easy SMILES, such q
her heart beat like triphammer."
To make book of travel interestin
and to weave in a charming love stor
IS an achievement in authorship
Letters TO Djinn,' by Grace zarin
Stone, is one of the few spellbind
ing travel books We have come acros
in many day The letters areswgit
herself "Sinbad." They are addresse
to ''Hinbad,'' confdant in New Yorl
When Sinbad needs comfort or nd
vice she pretendss that Hinbad rise
magically before her to give them,
The tale opens in Australia, wher
e;,nbad has been acting as social see
fetary to Mrs. Thomson, whose hu.
band is member of the Panama Con
mission. A. ball at Governmer
Rouse, Sydney, she renders aid to
fainting guest, Mrs. Darwin. Late
she learns that worry over sick sis
ter In Singapore is the cause Of th
woman's illness. Sinbad has the hear
of an adventurer, she has to earn he
living, and the Thomsons are returnin
TO America. Very naturally it come
about that she accepts the Darwin!
offer TO go to Singapore and bring th
sick sister, Mrs. Shepley. to her ow
people in Australia.
On board the Dutch ship Suydar
Sinbad yokes herself to Miss Hale
Hale, an English spinster. oficious
but a good sport withal. AT Papqua
Endicott, the famous English ex
plorer, comes aboard. This young man
the hyphenated Englishwoman, tn
rude American professor who object
tq hix title kscause ne isn't one, an.
eazAsd now constitutss travs1sn,