Evening star., 1932-03-13
Experience in the Consular Ser0ice, but None
Of the Official DEMONSTRATING Days
With Soldier Of Fortune-EarV
Spring Novels.

up a pretty wonderful theme which had been
kicking around for any ones taking. Not any
more that, than the frank, even savage. at
tack made by this young fellow upon mans
sacrosanct possession. his own secret mind.
And here Tiffany Thayer has gone and done
it again. One Swami Yogadachi, astrologer,
from Camden, N. j., sent out a circular and
with 1t q letter, to be forwarded to some one
else. You know the kind Strange things
to happen" any failure to send on the letter
unfortunate, to say the least" Everybody
at one time or another, has had that sort of
"round robin" Everybody has had that touch
of apprehension as he tore the letter up, If
he did, and threw it away. Superstition, no
more than grain left, carries that and many
another fantastic matter forward.
So, around went the Swamis communica-
ton. Immediately, each woman receiving it
dug down into her mess of mind for
the strange happening" hidden away there,
waiting only for a chance to get into the
open. Under the exclusive nurture that such
incident is likely to provide, thoughts Of sui
eide may grow or murder or thievery, or the
sin of lust, or any other deposit left deep
within one by grandsires of sturdier, more
narauding days. This is the ground upon
which Tiffany Thayer works. seed of sug-
gestion sown in widely vagarious fields of
blood and other lines of descent And here,
with the women, he is as bare-handed as he
was with his men in the earlier tale. saw
age fellow, rufhan of the mind kicking aside
layers of decent pretense to reach the real
stuff of us buried so deep. mental study.
Clever, adroit, deep diving Shocking? Ger
tainly. Nobody likes to see himself naked to
himself and the rest of the world Moral?
Certainly. Be careful to pick your sugges-
tions. And flee the Swami of that particular
brand. Brilliant as readable invention? In
dubitably.
LOADS OF LOVE BY Anne Parrish author
OF The Perennial Bachelor" ETC. New
York: Harper & Bros
A NNE PARRISH has the gift of popularity.
No largess of heaven, this. The reward
OF her own good sense instead Novels are
made to be read. Readers, in mass, are open
and obvious, interested in commonplaces of
human behavior. Profound thought wearies
them Intricacies of speech chill them. Prob
lematic attitudes and actions bewilder them
SO, wise to her day and generation, Anne
Parrish steps aside from this field of exclu-
sions, to pick up, all roundabout innumerable
aspects Of daily life and to hand these to US
% fun partners In the business of expert ap-
praisal of the great common run, in smiling
superiority well. Here Is one of the chief
counts for Anne Parrish. Her skill In taking
the populace Of readers along with her In
the sense that they too. are having q hand
In this clever stuff Of showing up the small
foibles Of the other fellow. How we all Hike
that feelingl
The comedy this time, is that of the over
heart OF Cousin Bessie. bent in true opuIence
OF body and soul upon helping everybody in
sight. The specific object of her prime beneh-
cence here is poor Edward dedicated by an
envelopang mother to the career Of novelist,
sealed therefore, to the solitude that Is as
stunned 10 encourage creative genius. Rescue
became ut once the spark that touched Cousin