Evening star., 1935-05-05

II II and II considered by his brothers,
jealous Of the son Of their father's
favorite wife, q an ''unlicked cub"
He = keeping the flocks with his
brothers. but works fitfully. not hard
and regularly - they do. When he
Is there they look upon him as the
spy Of their old father. Jacob, but
when he u away they are resentful.
Joseph is given an opportunity for
learning and studies with old Eliezer,
beneath the tree. Of God" Since the
birth Of Joseph to the beloved wife
Rachel Jacob had thought Of moth
ing else but to set this late conner
before the early ones. to place him at
their head and make him, who was
only Rachel's first-born, the first-born
Of them all" Here Is the groundwork
for jealousy and hatred In almost any
time or place. And 1t Is only accord
ing to universal human nature that
the resentment Of the older brothers
should grow. 80 when Jacob gives to
Joseph the beautifully embroidered
festal garment Of many colors, bought
at great cost from . merchant. the
wrath Of the 10 brothers grows, and
when Joseph tells his dream Of the
sheaves-of all his brothers bowling
down and making obeisance before
his sheaf-the limit Of their endurance
Is reached. The 10 announce their
departure from their fathers fields
and hearth and 60 to tend their fiocks
in the Vale Of Shechem. Jacob,
troubled In his mind because he rec
ognixes his unfairness, sends Joseph
with . message to the brothers. Tax
ing advantage Of their opportunity
without scruple, they throw him into
q pit, would have killed him except
for Reuben, and finally sell him to .
caravan Of MidiAnites going to Egypt,
and send back the many-colored gar
ment. smeared with blood. to the old
Jacob. This dramatic climax Is han
died by Thomas Mann with q skill
which brings out all it, possibilities.
LOVE IN WINTER. By Storm Jame-
son. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
HERvEY RUSSELL, granddaughter
Of that indomitable Mary Hervey,
owner Of Cartons shipbuilding firm,
passes . few more years Of her de-
pressed and seemingly futile life and
enters her thirttes in this novel. It
Is the third In which she figures; the
others are THAT Was Yesterday"
and Company Parade" Though her
contemporaries are continually see
ing In her resemblances to her iron
grandmother, her story has not q
1.-THE Of the vitality and interest of
that Of Mary Hansyke Hervey, told
In the trilogy The Lovely Ship"
THE Voyage Home and "A Richer
Dust" Mary Hervey was . shrewd
and hard business woman, so accus-
toned to rule that she was as in
flexible in her dealings with her
family ~ with her employees. Her
daughter, Sylvia Russell, Hervey's
mother, was . victim Of this inflex-
ibility, and Hervey's childhood and
youth were overshadowed by 1t. Sent
for by her grandmother in her last
illness. Hervey arrived too late, and
the course Of her life was thus seri-
ously altered. Her marriage to Penn
Vane had no alleviating circumstance,
unless it might be her son Richard,
and as he is only nine at the time
of this latest story, it is too early to
Judge about his value.
In this novel, as in the others about
Hervey Russell and Nicholas Roxby
and in her autobiography. mo Time
Like the Present" Storm Jameson is
almost obsessed by the damage done
q whole generation by the World War.
Nicholas Roxby, Hervey's cousin,
whom she loves supinely, with no
atom Of elf-respect, Is q war derelict,
cast of by his wife. Jenny. because
of her dissatisfaction with his made
quAcy. He loves and needs Hervey,
but shrinks from any effort Or trouble
which their relation might involve.
Much Of the story Is concerned with
his vacillation over the securing OF
marriage, his Indifferent treatment Of
Hervey and her forgiveness. often re-
peated. william Gary is another
whom the war has irreparably in
jured, but he Is finding his way to
new life in his plans for making Of
his Lanarkshire coal mines an i'm.
proved modern industry, and would be
contented II Georgina Roxby would
cease to thrust her love upon him,
when he has done with women. The
London background for the narrative
Of Hervey and Nicholas Is peopled
with Jewish newspaper owners. pub
Nshers and editors, both men and
women; Labor members OF Parliament,
Socialists (Hervay calls herself one)
and unredeemed capitalists. And for
relief from London, there b Danes
acre. In Yorkshire. This Is not one
Of storm Jameson's best books, but it
q rood enough 90 that We want to
learn more about Hervey Russells
life.
HUNGRY MEN. BY Edward Ander-
son. New York: Doubleday. Doran
q Co.
0F THE manuscripts submitted for
~ the $1,000 Doubleday. Doran
prize, two were % good that the
judges were unable TO decide BE-
tween them, this novel BY Edward
Anderson and mot for Heaven" by
Dorothy McCleary. 30 two $1,000
prizes were generously awarded. Ed
ward Anderson, whose first novel this
Is, went on the road with q as
capital, 70 zee not scenic America,
but the American Jungle" where
the dog -eat-dog world OF the job
lese (is) on the move" He has put
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