Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04

ing to my way of thinking writer a fine
fellow, tremendously attractive, but cool
a cucumber after all. Caroline is a painter
have said that? Well she is and the next
thing is that she is painting Peters picture.
1t doesn't take. Peter is delightful-but ''un-
bowed Maybe that is why he is so attractive
Such phenomenal man. Apparently without
vanity. There are great heights and depths
to this story. No, it is not done that way any
more. Instead there is very astute and
feeling pathway made through the thoughts
and impulses and tentative behaviors of these
various characters, spurred here and there,
now and then, by the tribes of discomfort with
which they are faced and often discounted
True, that travelling the world over is a great
adventure. Not half so great however, as
knowing With certainty something of the adj
venture that your friend is, that your lover is,
that you yourself are. 1t is to this kind of
in-faring that Sylvia Thompson with subtle
certainty, with delicate finger tips with know
ing heart, points the reader in this her latest
novel, in her most completely self-possessed
novel.
ROMAN HOLIDAY. BY Upton Sinclair author
of "Ofl," etc. New York: Farrar & Rine-
hart.
MANY novels and stable group of plays
go to the literary account of Upton Sin
clair. Well toward 30 of these novels Prob
AMY Ho onS has Eedu ali Oh IneLL NO nOVellSC
could expect that. not today. The most Of us
have read many of them. From these read, it
is safe to say that the whole output-play and
novel together-are founded upon a single
theme. Upton Sinclair is that kind Of man.
Not bad kind, provided. The evils Of
modern life. the mistakes Of government-these
are the sources from which Mr.. Sinclair draws
his impassioned arraignment Of the economic
sins of this country against the large body Of
its people. That. In effect is the theme Of
the story in hand. On the one side the wage
worker, subject to the tyranny of the em-
ployer, a tyranny that may flame into acute
injustice from nothing more than flare of
temper, than impulse, heeting but destruc-
tive. On the other hand the easy family Of
the head Of, the industry that shapes the
story. The family discomfort rises. The work
of agitators takes its usual course At crisis
one of the young employers is hurt. Here ends
the first. part of the story. that is of the in
tensifed realism characteristic of Mr.. Sinclairs
brilliant and telling manner. From this injury
young Luke Faber slips into mental state
which, to all intents and purposes, makes him
an inhabitant of old Rome. This, the Roman
holiday at the time leading to the destruction
OF Carthage. And this is the gospel of Upton
SincIair's story. This is the lesson for us to
con. IF my Roman holiday tells me truth,
the American Republic now stands at the mo-
ment between the destruction of Carthage and
the murder of Tiberius and Gaius Gracious,
champions Of the peoples cause Is that
parallel to be continued? Are we to see Sulla
in America, and a Caesar? WIN these be fol-
lowed by Nero and a Caligula? So, here you
have the point of this story Of political purpose.
Upton Sinclairs gospel Of life done in novels.