Evening star., 1933-07-23

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classification Of Pull Devil. Pull Baker"
fiction is probably safe. At any rate. Miss
Benson. IN the part Of the Devil, Is responsible
for the creation Of this fantastic tale in literary
form. Born in a Shropshire village. after .
delicate childhood. Miss Benson has expert
manted with many occupations and lived in
many lands and has finally found in China
this rich material Her home Is now in Mall
chura, As her husband is In the Chinese Gus
toms service.
E p. DuttOn & Co.
BOHEMIA, whatever its city habitat. Is ro-
- mantle, free and gay in literature but
usually sordid, sad and tragic in reality, IN
spite Of its evanescent moments Of gaiety ana
its freedom to be miserable in its own way
Henri Murger was one Of the first to show IN
literature the real Bohemia Of Paris In his
Scenes de Ia Vie de Boheme" Recently
Albert Parry IN his "Garrets and Pretenders:
History Of Bohemianism in America" ended
with account of several Greenwich Village
suicides and the remark: Put whatever the
religion Of Greenwich Village it never takes
in all Of its young. and it never makes its in
habitants 50 happy that they dispense with
the custom Of suicide" Pink Parade" the
story Of London's Bohemia is written in
more deyn-maycare spirit than "Garrets
and Pretenders." The Pink Parade" includes
the favorites and the habitues of the famous
old music halls and variety theaters; the pop
ular tap rooms, sporting clubs, prize rings
race tracks, cockpits and night clubs and
the always alluring Chinatown. Charles B.
Cochran, q fellow journalist of Nj Booth says
in his forevord: "Mr. Booths Pink Parade
reViyes very vividly for men of my generation
many sleeping memories Of days and nights We
once lived" And MIR. Booth says: TO the
postwar reader there will be much that Is
strange in this record of a vanished age the
vanishing of which Is recent and so COM
plete-" He asks: rs Bohemia a lost country
ABSORBED in the readjustment of the map by
ware" He-cannot believe that it has entirely
vanished. but believes that it has SO changed
that it has lost its SAVIOR. So here Is another re-
gret for past that IS no mere. Mr. Booths
deepcs: regret Is for the journalists Bohemia
which fiotrished until about 20 years ago-"a
quarter in which there were in their YOUTH
some famous sojourners" The chapters make
good reading. They tell with the relish OF
rich recollection, about West End ghosts: ac-
tors and critics; the decline of the music
halls with the advent Of the finn: boxing and
wrestling; cock, dog. and lion fights; book
makers. lotteries, sweeps and systems; SNUG
glers, DOPE Chinatown. and slunlming The
illustrations are from photographs. Old prints.
and caricatures
WHEN ADAM wEPT BY A. R. Craig. New
York: Doubleday, Dorsn & Co.
A Englishwoman of the postwar genera
ton has written her first novel about a
modern marriage wrecked entirely wrecked, al
though the husband and wife remain together
by economic conditions and the violent, almost
pathoiogfcal, temper Of the husband When
Clair, already successful as an advertising
copy writer, marres Peter Armitage she con-
fesses to her sister an analytical young world
ling: We're not particularly companionabIe.
We shall never be friends. Yet there's a lot
more in 1t than sex" Susan remembering her
father and mother suggests: IAN appreciation
OF permanence." It Is this appreciation which
in the end keeps them together, but perma-
nence. merely not separating. does not make
happy marriage. Is Clair discovers. Peter
IS tender toward his violent temper lit is 50
much easier to be tender toward ones own
than toward the tempers Of others), almost
makes . cult Of i. His occasional remorse
seems only partly sincere and Il is hard to
believe In his effort 1t control He relies ON
his charm to hold Clair. Yet at the end when
he is about to lose her. he faces the fact that
his charm has failed and appeals to her pity
and his selfish love for her. There's a devil
in NE which I can't control. When it gets
hold OF me, don't care how much hurt you
I know I'm hurting and it pleases me.
choose the worst things can think OF and
I say them, but all the time I'm tortured
Sometimes while I'm lashing ut you with my
tongue, delighted because I can make you
vince, I'm longing to put my arms round
you and comfort you. You see. I love you
better than anything In the world"
Yet Peters temper does not give the title
to the novel, though it is sufficient to have
done 50. Clair is recognized as clever and
possessing administrative ability in the adver-
tising business and becomes more and more
successful. When her salary exceeds his, Peter
grows morose and bitter. His ideal is for q
man to support his wife, In luxury If possible,
with her activities confined to the home where
he would probably be willing that they should