Evening star., 1934-09-30
BY SARAH BOWERMAN

against IL. Inc CrlSlS comes W0en
Captain Nicholas, despising them all
thoroughly for their belief in reli-
gion, family life, honesty and an
orderly existence, yet decides for his
own convenience to make his perma-
nent home with them. Then Fanny
surprises her husband, her children
and her brothers and sister, none of
whom will ever consider her old
fashioned again. She does battle for
her Spring evening"" for all which
that beautiful evening q year before,
the last of her happiness, symbolizes
in her life. She wins. We are sorry
only that Lizzie could not have been
saved from the wreckage. She and
young Edward are two of Mr.. Wal
poles delightful children. Through
the story as an evil accompaniment
moves the small, brown jamaican
half-caste Abel; and the black cat
Becky Sharp, silently prowling
through the halls Of the house, is like
. sleuth on the trail of the gentle
man scoundrel. Captain Nicholas"
Is one Of the best Of Hugh Walpole's
minor novels.
4 X y
GOING ABROAD. BY Rose Macau-
lay. New York: Harper &
WITH "Potterism," Rose Macaulay
established herself as a social
satirist OF cleverness and range below
no twentieth century writer's except
the unique veteran, George Barnard
Shaw. Dangerous Ages" and Told
by an Idiot" were still good satire, If
not the best. but Orphan Island" and
Staying With Relations" showed a
forcing process and in spite Of it lag
ged badly. Now, In Going Abroad"
Miss Macaulay has again fallen into
ner best stride and surpassed even
Potterism." N0better fun can be
recommended for the Autumn piazza
or deck Of steamer, or the Winter
freside. II 1t Is necessary to POSTPONE
the pleasure. And one marvels at the
erud1tion displayed in connection with
the bishops treatise on heresies and
his discussions Of missionary efforts
in Mesopotamia. There are a number
Of different satires, combined into an
absorbing and on the whole plaus-
ible tale. Chief among them is the
satire on the oxford Group, or Buch-
movement. Secondary is the
satire on the beauty parlor racket.
Smaller satiries are on foreign mis-
sionary enterprise, the idea of ma
tional autonomy, English public school
and university snobbery, the military
temperament, feminine scholarship,
the amusements Of the younger gener-
alton, and human meanness, hypoc-
risy, animosities and lesser peculiar
tiles.
The dramatis personae include the
missionary Bishop of Xanadu and his
wife, former Cambridge classical
don; Sir Arthur Denzil, lively ex-
diplomat, and Mrs. Aubrey's brother;
M. and Nine. Josef, proprietors of a
chain of beauty parlors in the cap
itals of Europe. he Spanish Basque,
she French Basque; Col. and Mrs
Buckley, of the British military caste,
and their two children, Giles, a snob
and misanthrope, and Hero, more
beautiful than brainy; Mrs. Dixon, a
horrible example and warning of what
the Josefs' beauty treatments can do
to woman; and Ted Baines, oxford
Group leader, and his band Of young
men and women, usually clad In bath
ing suits or in shorts and pull-overs
A picturesque collection of Basque
peasant-bandi furnishes a SEM
blance Of chorus for this comic opera.
All these are making holiday at Ia
rauz, on the Spanish Basque coast,
and are, with no great eagerness on
the past Of any one except the OK
ford Groupers. continually thrown
into each others society.
The Groupers divide their time be-
tween bathing and tennis on the one
hand and attempting to Change" all
the guests and servants at the Hotel
Miramar. Their attempts are re-
warded with striking if ephemeral
success. Changing" involves also the
technique of Guidance" Sharing"
and Restitution. The duty of
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