Evening star., 1935-02-10

Paul Horgan, whose second move
published. The author won the Har
book, "The Fault of the Angels"
to mitigate the hardshipS Of unem-
ployment; international cooperation
| to end destructive world economic war
| fare.
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES
OF THE NEW DEAL. BY Benja-
min Stolberg and Warren Jay Vim
ton. New York: Harcourt, Brace
g. Co.
MR.. STOLBERG, teacher of eco
AVA nomics and journalist specialize
ing in the field of labor, and Mr.. VIM
ton, economist, industrialist, and for
mer director of research for the Amer
| ican Association for Social Security,
are critics of the New Deal from the
Left. They believe that choice must
be made between big ownership and
| the rest of US" and that the Roosevelt
administration has tried to choose
both. Though the authors do not pay
tribute to Karl Marx, his class war
| fare influence can be observed. They
continue that "the New Deal is merely
the capture of Government by 'scien-
tific' social work. It Is merely a re-
modelling of the White House into
new Hull House And the Brain
Trusters are nothing but settlement
workers who want the big bad bank
ers and the good little workers to
play together in peace. Some specific
| charges, not many, are brought
against the New Deal policies Most OF
the charges are general and sweeping
and stated with conscious dramatic
effect At the root of all the criti-
cism is the objection that the New
Deal has not militantly proclaimed
strife, but has attempted to harmo-
nize conflicting interests. There Is
nothing the New Deal has SO far done
that could not have been done better
by an earthquake"
NO QUARTER GIVEN. BY Paul Hor-
gan. New York: Harper & Bros.
MUSIC and the drama inspire this
A'A new novel of Paul Horgan. as
they did his Harper prize-winning
novel, THE Fault of Angels" He ex-
plains his title: "In the battle be-
tween a man and his needs, there is no
quarter given" Edmund Abbey, his
chief character, Is composer strug-
Cling in world which seems normally
hostile to creative achievement First
of the hostilities is his breakdown in
health, when he develops tuberculosis.
We suspect on the very first page that
his portly, artif1cially preserved wife,
whose third husband he is, is another
hostility even though she has brought
him to her elegant old yellow stone
house in Santa Fe to recover his
health. Our suspicious are correct.
and it Is not long before he has
learned to be quite content under the
care of Aunt Lena Cher aunt and the
nurse during Georgia'S prolonged alb
sences on pleasure bent. His content
Is to be accounted for not so much
by the comparlionship Of Aunt Lena,
| who reads to him with relish all the
disasters featured in the newspapers,
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aelis, young actress, who adores his
music.
After meeting Maggie, Edmund kicks
over the traces occasionally, goes to
late parties and clutches eagerly for
the life which has been escaping him
in the limbo of invalidism. But his
most desperate effort is to finish the
photographed symphony, which he
knows will be great. He has to fight
for his symphony. against 1uctuating
illness, against the emotional strain
which Maggie brings, against the
whole hectic life of Santa Fe, where
every one in the gay, excited colony is
racing to the end of his own particu-
lar rainbow. There is the reverse side
to the struggle of the composer to full
| fill his genius He himself Is as ruth
less as the world Is toward him; he
gives himself to no one, makes use of
every one who has what he needs, all
| for his symphony. After the struggle
IS over, symphony No. 8, in D Minor"
by Edmund Abbey, is played by a great
orchestra in New York, conducted by
Angelini In his plumbing Of the
| 1epths of an artists temperament and
his study of an artists environment,
Paul Horgan recalls the masterpiece
of the French Roman ROLAND, Jean
| Christophe."
| 4 X X 4
THE WILLOUGHBYS. BY Alice
Brown. New York: D. Appleton
Century Co.
| A LICE BROWN writes of q world
remote from the feverish struggle
for success, for amusement, for mere
existence: but it Is, nevertheless, q
world of conflict, of inner conflict
which leads to the border or over the
border of mental abnormality. Her
scenes are always old-fashioned New
England villages, circled by hills, only
slightly penetrated by modernity, in
the shape of automobile and the radio.
Her people live either in the petty
daily routine, if they are realists. or
in the past or the realm of the spirit,
if they are idealists. Most OF them
are introverts; they think and dream
too much for their mental wellbeing.
They are not as morbid as Mary VIII
kins' men and women. but have the
same acute consciousness OF signif-
canoe in all the actions and emotions