Evening star., 1933-06-11

AaG. Of the type Of DE JekyN and Nr. Hyde."
hut With both personalities fnc1TnAtonS evil.
"A carnation for an Old Man" tells q The
nyuticAl love Of an old Herries mAn. descend
ant Of THE Rogue for the pictured Sante
EniNa in Spanish cathedral IN TT. oday."
. distinguished author mingles inc0grit0 v1eh
tn younger generation and learns Whist thcy
think Of him and his conservative kind, and
incidentally Is of help to young Tommy Brown,
who is trying to keep up with his own genera
tino bat really belongs with the Older. The
Staircase" gives personality to house, in which
the staircase takes vengeance ON . eraboed,
malicious sister who Is spelling the happiness
Of her brother and his young wife. The
Whistle" and Sentimental But True" show
Mr.. Walpole's love for dogs. The Oldest Tai
land' records the end of the rule OF tyran-
nical old matriarch in Cornish village family;
It Is fun Of delightful irony. In many casual
phrases and sentences through these stories
are evidences OF Mr.. Walpole's Engiish-con-
sciousness; the English are thus, an Engiishman
is so. He could not by any possible chance be
mistaken for a writer Of another nationality.
CO6MOPOILS. BY Rupert Croft-Cooke. New
York: The Dial Press.
COAkKTIhGES those who feel most keenly the
- tragedy of human relations are able rs veil
able to do this, though his sense of the comedy
grew less and his savage dislike Of humanity
greater as he grew older and more hypoch0n-
driac, so that the first of his "Gulliver's Trav-
e1s," the Voyage to Lillput,' is merely caHs-
ticaIfy humorous IN its satire, whereas the last,
the Voyage to the HauyhnhnmS" il bitterly
denunciatory. Bernard Shaw's satire, sharp
edged as it is, has never been inspired by hatred
Of human beings, however much it has ridi-
cuIed their habits and actions. "C0mopohs~
u good, If not great satire fun Of serious irony
directed toward national characteristics and
the difficulties of international relationships
and at the same time gay and humorous
enough and sufficiently varied IN plot 20 that
tt r. o readable story. The vehicle Of the satire
n Utopian school established on . moun-
tain which is considered to be geographically
the center of the world. Here DIR. Jules Roth
stein, an idealistic Austrian jew ereets his
Institut Utopia, to be cradle of peace In
which the sons Of all nations viii get to know
each ether in childhood and carry tnterna-
tional affection throughout their lives. They
win mix here in sport and work. and when they
are grown men they will remember each other
with warmth, so that in its way my institute
viii be doing great work In the wo1ld be-
sides providing for each boy q unique and
unsurpassable education" This an sounds Ike
preparatory school for the League Of Nations.
No one would venture to call the idea impos-
sihle, yet NO one would believe very completely
IN It. Youth Is more plastic than maturity so
al movements, for good or for evil, attempt to
enlist youth The working out Of Or. Roth
STEMS idea furnishes plot Of NO meager pro-
portions. The students are from many nations
and differing social classes but all are wealthy,
Tor the fees are not what are often aiVer-
tised as moderate" It is boys school but
femininity enters in the person Of Lady Stella
F1ske, LONDON society beauty, Is sophisticated
years old, who accompanies her younger brother
to the institute. Naturally, one az the older
boys falls in love with her. German, so that
the International problem may be viewed from
romantic angle. At the end gray bat flies
over what has been the Institut Utopia.