Evening star., 1933-09-03
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responsible to a great extent for the wild in
fation" preceding the collapse Of 1929 Each
chapter after the nrst is a brief biography and
estimate OF one Wall Street luminary, and in
the estimates satire is not spared. The chap
tiers on John Pierpont Morgan tevidently writ
ten before the recent appearance of Mr. Nor
gan at hearings on his income tax returns,,
John Dawson Rockefeller, jr.: Otto Herman
Kahn, Eugene Meyer, IT,: Charles Gates Dawes.
Thomas William Lamont, Charles Edwin
Mitchell and Bernard Names Baruch will
probably be Of most popular interest Mr..
Baruch arouses the unusual admiration of the
author He says: Mr.. Baruch was a mon
umentel success In the War Board . . His
is one of the few flrst-class minds have ever
met who was able to preserve his elasticity.
clarity and imagination through West Point
and career in the Regular Army
DIR. William A. White our leading psychoan-
alyst would glory in charting those mental
operations that defy the syllogistic method and
seem to be tnsolube. When the .Bra!n
Trust dissoives at the end of the Roosevelt
honeymoon, I am disposed to think that the
most potent brain in Washington will be the
brain of Bernard M. Baruch." quoted state
ment Of Mr.. Baruch regarding Wall Street
seems to sum up the authors own opinion
when 1 first went down to the Street." Mr.
Baruch is reported to have said, Il was taught
to respect certain great minds of those days.
found they were pretty shallow set; in fact,
I found there were more operrated men in
Wall Street than in any other street in the
world. So I borrowed a motto from a prize
fighter Was it Sullivan Fitzsmmons? The
bigger they come the harder they fall There
after did very nicely"
DAUGHTER To PHILIP. BY Beatrice Kean
Seymour. New York: Alfred A. Knopf
THE most obnoxious men In fiction are usually
created by women novelists; at least it
seems so until one recalls George Meredith's
~Egodst," and. letting ones mind run down to
the present day. Louis Bromheld.s Modern
Hero" Such heroes demonstrate that men
novelistS are often not averse to showing the
depths of masculine selfiShneSs. Mrs. Seymour
has created an unrelieved example of that
selishness IN Philip Stratton successful novel
ist prepayment but not practitioner Of the old
fashioned virtues in marriage. He is impatient
OF his wlfes invalidism and disbeleves in her
weak heart until it occurs to him that if
really weak it might aid him in his determina-
tion to make Alex divorce him SO that he can
marry his casual smiling mistress, Fanny who
is much more in accord with his nature The
method by which he succeeds in removing
the pathetic but stubbornly resistant Alex is
ingenious melodrama. It opens the story,
which is primarily about Sharlie daughter of
Philip and Alex Hastily married to Fanny and
in voluntary exile in Italy, where daughter
Pen is born to them, Philip is more than will
ing to leave Sharlie for two years in the care
of her grandparents, the father and mother of
Alex, at their home in Lincolnshire. Mr. and
Mrs Selwyn, deeply resentful of Philips treat
ment Of their daughter, would like to keep
Sharlie permanently and dread but do not
resist giving her up when he returns to Eng
land and establishes his family in a hand
some house near Hyde Park
The real story Of Sharlie begins here Hither-
IN no hoc hopV ol,f1
mental processes one has been able to
penetrate. That she is fun of complexes must
of course be obvious, since she has SO often
lain awake in her bed on the top floor of
Bede Cottage and listened to her father and
mother qualreling in the room below her, and
especially because of the terrible impression
made upon her by the sight of her father with
blood dripping from his neck while her mother
lay strangely quiet on the bed. If her early
dislike OF her father could have continued
she might have returned to her grandparents
and her life would have been happier, but she
falls a victim to his charm, her mother had
done before her, and as her stepmother never
really does. 1t brings no satisfaction to any
one to be devoted to Philip. as Sharle dis
covers. Her relations with her had-sster, Pen,
introduce further unhappineSs into her life.
Love is for her dissonance, not harmony.
Finally she accepts second-best which. in
view of all the EMBELLISHMENTS of her life,
cuilnlnaUlng IN tne pupncaton OF her father
photographed novel, in which she recognizes
the characters of her mother, Fanny, and her
self, We feel to be haven of peace. AS Mark
says, The world Cs) not, I think, so very
well lost for love-" Daughter to Philip" is
packed with emotion and will please those who
ike it in unlimited quantities. The characters
are really alive, especially Fanny, whose por-
trayal is by far the best of the group.