Evening star., 1933-08-13
7Y SARAH @. .BOWERMAN
Il Ne7v Publication Of an Old Book-Photo-
graphs of the WmN War-Inte,esting
Summer Fiction.
Summer Fiction.

Il tCbtO/Ss
HI great act Of atonement following hs re-
pentanee, before the sentimental benedactton
which h the finale. As In many of the old
fashioned novels Of sin and repentance, the
sin u allotted the bulk Of the space, pgesum-
ably because it h more interesting to readers
than the repentance.
Prom the beginning Of his career - ne
Zionist M. Hutchinson has followed the ways
Of meodrzma. In what has probably been
hh most popular novel, If Winter Comes"
he worked through many troubles to . happy
end IN Illustration of Shelley's line: II Winter
comes can Spring be far behLnd?" In an
other novel, This Freedom" thnk, he
marked the stages of his progressive Tragedy,
growing out Of the new freedom Of women, by
the swinging Of . Psychological penduhm and
the recuTrent striking Of . Psychological
clock. His "SriAe one" STRIKE two" and %
On up TO the final catastrophe vaS . mAnneY1sm
Of me3oeraA which became irritating. 50, IN
The Soft Spot" there is much studied repe-
ttion Of phrases. the effect ol which y not to
reinforce impressions 80 much - 70 dilute
them to the point Of isipidisy. In one chap
ter at the end which might be called the
stonement chapter, the word "atonement" oc-
ours alone a. . paragraph SIX times and -
an exelamatory refrain IN other paragraphs
several more times. Fof example: Our man
is rushing in the train to LONDON, and ON from
London, without stopping there, to SAipmAtes
This country hone) and as the rhythm Of the
wheels upon the metals sound In his ears,
'Atonement, atonement! it cries to him. and
he exultantly to it-Atonement atonement,
atonement!" Repression does not charaterize
Mr. Hrtchinson's STYLE but the popularity OF
his novels in the past demonstrates that there
are many readers who prefer exuhezance OF
sentiment to repression; perhaps they consider
uycnohgically more Wholesome, even In
fiction style. And there is In Mr.. Hutehin-
sons novels the excellence Of abundant Mot
and action He does not merely uogalize
about soft spots" about human vealues,es and
sins; he allows the results Of them to work out
rutniessay IN his stories and they are no more
hfe
THE SHOWS OF HEIICON By H. NJ Toanlin-
son. New York: Harper d Brutheu
TRAvERS, an architect who has reached the
top ranges of his profeszion, travelling in
Greek waters. notices a bright ninbss Il, the
sky and Is told by sailor that It Is Helicon.
covered with its SHOWS. The beauty of the glow
ing mountain gives him only melancholy
pleasure Tor 1t enforces the feeling that has
been growing with his material success that, In
the conflict between the spirit Of beauty and
mans greed for wealth and power, beauty has
hrevocsbay lost. In possessing the earth man
has destroyed its best values, and he hinaseh has
been one of the destroyers, with the huge hotels
and movie palaces of his designing Now men
hate beauty because the rare SIGHT q It re-
proaches them for their brutal destructveness
So the world Is melancholy. desperate insane
Beauty has departed from it. Machines have
destroyed It. As Travers wanders about the
world On the seas, more and more Lost h his
ntgs. his wife, whose happy nature = ab3e to
find satisfaction even in the shipping uproaT Of
harbors, begins to lose her nerve.
The people whom he shuns look at him with
doubtful head-shAkinSs. Only the boSun, Bdt
Byies, i sure that Mr. Tf2vesy II Al night and
h: some has ideas, thoash he, Bert doesn't
understand Just what they axe. MAnteH a
young mive1zity man, the only De q hs fei-
low tT1veIegs for whom Tfsvez3 shows the mint
est Mktng attempts to interest I'm in the TUogh,
e3eDent2zy hanan types ia the third einss
CABIN, but the very idea of mass hunani1J IS
repensnt to Trsvers Finally, 1t . mythical
Island IN the Mediterranean, where there y q
beautiful ruined temple, abo14 to se destroyed
BY the march Of Industrial progress, where Aen
are buildhg derricks and discarded pieces Of
machinery and broken statutes are mingled on
the shore, Trave5S finds his solution and makes
SELF alone and hAa No retAr1kng b1oeDee on
the destruction Of beauky vhirh has - eaten
into hs soul The Shows Of He3tcou" = hardly
. story It b rather . study Of pesSOnaA0 IN
rev01t against modern mate5iafl2 and uss 1or
peweE, and driven to despair b. the hope3es-
mess Of the revolt. Is IL shows anything. 1t
shows that sA idealist has no pssee IN the world
today Il has neither the euncretene8 Nor the
probability Of general appeal of M. Tonfh-
sons CARRIER novels, Gallons Reach" and All
Our Yesterdays" but It has . meDaee-a
sad one.
KRAAI. BABY By Cynthia stock1ey. oardcr
CITY: Doubleday, Durun 4 CO.
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