Evening star., 1934-04-29

rule or perish" 1t is story OF success and
domination without happiness, Of disillusion
with the mask preserved.
TENDER is THE NIGHT BY F. Scott Fitz-
gerald New York; Charles Scribner's Sons
THE contrast is striking between the title OF
] this novel and that of Mr.. FtZgerald's ear
Her one, 1.-The Beautiful and Damned" Yet
there is considerable damnatioe in this latest
one in spite of its poetic title taken from Keats
sOde to a Nightingale" For, if tender is the
night" also here there is no light" 1t Is
Freudian novel, but to say this Is not to con-
denim it to the limbo of the psychlatric
Though it deals with abnormal psychology, 1t
does so with sufficient subtlety and literary
skill remotely to recall the work OF Henry
James. Practically considered it is a warning
to pSychiatrists not to marry their attractive
patients DR. Richard Diver is the focus OF
interest throughout, though his wife Nicole,
who has first met him through her dire mental
need caused by terrible experience Of child
hood Is equally well developed as character.
The third person of the story, important in the
amount of space given to her, is really only
prologue Rosemary Hoyt, motion picture star.
beautiful, of course, meets the Divers and their
two Children at Riviera resort and Rosemary
and Dick fall in love with each other. 1t seems
at first that Rosemary is to be the leading
lady, but that is a mistake. When the story
has progressed through third Of its length,
back from 1925 to 1917. This technique, though
undoubtedly intentional and studied, produces
the effect upon the reader of two separate
stories.
The real story begins with Book II, when
Rosemary is eliminated, after the grueSome
scene in the hotel corridor outside the Divers
suite In 1917 Nicole Warren was an attractive
girl in Swiss sanitorium for rich mental
cases Her father, wealthy Chicagoan had
been forbidden to see her for at least nVe years
Assisting DR.. Dohmler and DR.. Gregoroviom in
her treatment, Richard Diver had become the
means of her salvation through her falling IN
love with him-a "transference," as DR.. Dohm-
Ter put it. Admitting that he was only half
in love with her." and in spite Of the warnings
OF his two doctor friends, Dick married Nicole
The marriage proved for him the beginning OF
O decline In both character and promising Ca
reer. Nicoe's money destroyed his initiative
and once her invalid's need Of him was past,
she cast him aside. We leave him practcing
general medicine in Geneva N. Y "in any case
he Is almost certainly in that section OF the
country, in one town or another. 1t Is doubt
full If this novel will add greatly to MT F1tz-
gerald's reputation as one OF the analysts o.
the chaotic postwar age
THE GORGEOUS HUSSY. By Samuel
Hopkins Adams Boston, Houghton Mif1in
Co.
doggy ONEALE, daughter of Maj. O'Neale.
] proprietor Of the Franklin Inn, later
Gadsby's, ruptured administration and
threw Washington society into hysteria. Presi-
dent Andrew Jackson said she was "chaste as
virgin" and Vice President Calhoun called
her q harpy Of degradation Her influence in
brief period Of American history was en-
tirely out of proportion to her merit. At the
age Of IA she attempted to elope with a man
much older than herself and at Is succeeded
in eloping with a purser in the Navy, who
cd a A
widow, with q suspicion Of scandal always
attending her. she was far too attractive to
eligible males to please the society matrons
of Washington When she married John IL
Eaton one of the richest Of the eigibes and
friend of jackson, and when, after Jackson's
election to the presidency, Eaton was made
Secretary Of War, q war broke out among the
cabinet wives worse than any war Eaton was
ever called upon to handle. Jackson came
to Peggys defense and made an issue OF her
recognition, but the ladies stood firm and the
cabinet all resigned, except Van Buren, VINO
had no wife to coerce him. He became Jack
sons heir to the presidency. So Peggy shaped
the course Of history.
ACCOMMODATING her husband to Madrid
where he was sent as Minister. she became
friend Of the Queen. who was less fastdiou'
than the cabinet wives. After Eaton's death
she came back to washington and fell In love
with her granddaughter's dancing teacher
a 1e-year-old italian and took him to live II
her house, soon marrying him. This wa
irst after Lincoln had become President. From
the point Of view Of the scholarly biograpnlca
dictionary, Peggy Eaton committed the I'M
pardonable sin; the date of her birth Is no
known and her grave is marked by no tomb
stone with revealing data. But Tor Samue
Adams. In search Of material for gorgeous
romance, she has proved most satisfactory. II
the highly colored and dashingly paintet