Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-09

There Is probably a logical reason why q
psychiatrist should turn to fiction; his expe-
Renee with the human mind both normal and
abnormal (and who can be sure which Is
which?) gives him SO much material Dr.
Sutherland is q Scot, son Of q doctor. After his
medical courses at the universities Of Edin-
burgh and Aberdeen, he went to the south Of
Spain to assist uncle in q clinic On his
return to Scotland he was q clinical assistant
tn an Edinburgh hospital for the insane. He
started with the aid Of friends, the first OPEN
air school for tubercular children in London,
and gave up a sanatorium post worth TOO
pounds year to work among the consumptive
poor Of Marylebone. During the war he served
as a naval surgeon He closes his autobiography
with description Of holiday he spent at the
end Of the on the Island Of Lewis in the
Outer Hebrides-and he loves the Highlands Of
Scotland.
The first chapter tells Of Summer holiday
of his family when he was years old. in the
Highlands along the Caledonian Canal, when
his father sat up all night with gun at hand
to protect them from an insane boarder at the
cottage where they were Staying-the boys first
experience with the insane. After passing his
course in pathology, young Sutherland went
whaling around the Shetland Isles and crept
through the main artery of slaughtered whale
on an exploring trip. While in Spain he studied
the technique Of the bull fight and even made
some attempts himself as an amateur matador.
Very good reading is this unconventional auto
biography of an adventurous Scottish medico.
CARR BY Phyllis Bentley New York: The
Macmillan Co.
uCARR" purports to be the biography OF
~ Phillip Joseph Carr manufacturer OF
the village of Carr Foot, in the West Riding Of
Yorkshire. written by his granddaughter, Mary
Elizabeth Carr" Miss Bentley's Inheritance
was perhaps the best Of last years output Of
novels a: least it had few rivals. Carr" an
earlier novel, never before published in this
country is in no respect equal to Inheritance"
but it is not one Of those immature works
entirely without merit often published to take
advantage of the success Of later and much
better work. The public has become suspi-
cious of these early works." brought out after
q success Hence this comment. Carr" is in
content, characters and method of writing, a
novel of merit and strength. The setting IS
again Miss Bentley's own Yorkshire, which
she describes from such knowledge and with
such affection that we live in it for the time.
The story is that of Philip Carr, his youth. love,
marriage business career in the textile industry,
and his influence on all those who knew him in
the West Riding.
The granddaughter who tells the story does
not obtrude herself and writes Of her relatives
by name throughout, that We are not BOTH
cred to remember which one IS my grand
father" my uncle" my aunt" etc. The
method is, however somewhat artificial. Philip
Carr spoke of himself as an ordinary man and
did not consider his life as one Of especial &C
complishment, but without the average man
to maintain what has already been gained OF
truth and justice, decency and honour, love
and kindness, laughter and joy, and to hand
them on intact to the next generation. while
the eminent man IS experimenting with i'm
,o,,ll v.4ekI from
the earth" The Cars Of the world are the
conservators of all that is worth creating and
worth keeping in our life.
At the end Philip Carr reflected that he did
not envy Tomas Eastwood, predatory and ty-
rannical, though he had undoubtedly accumu-
lated wealth. He thought, on the whole, he
would rather die as p. ]. Carr than Tomas
Eastwood. He had improved nothing. invented
nothing, it was true; but then as far as he
could Judge he had spoiled nothing either
It will be preceived that Carr" Is novel
with philosophical implications, but 1t Is no
abstraction. Carr himself, his mother, deserted
by her husband q few hours before her sons
birth; his wife, Cordelia, daughter Of the man
who exposed the dishonesty of Cars father
and caused his disappearance; Catherine, Cars
cousin unable to cope with life or with her
mean husband Tomas Eastwood; Tomas HIM
self, and all the minor characters are inter-
preted with vigor and realism.
MISTRESS OF MONTEREY BY Virginia
Stivers Bartlett. Indianapolis. The Bobbs-
Merrill Co.
CENOR DON PEDRO FACES, civil governor
y of the CALIFORNIA; and Fray Junipero Sierra,
padre presidente of the missions of California,
sat together at table in the priests quarters
in the Autumn of 1888. The governor told the
priest with whom he had passed many years
of friendship and pioneering that he had just
sent message to the viceroy in Mexico, asking
that his wife, Dona Eulalia, whom he had not
seen in eight years, should join him at the
preside in Monterey. So begins this story,
chiefly fiction, but partly history of the days