Evening star., 1935-03-09
THE LIBRARY TABLE
BY SARAH C.. BOWERMAN.

THIS WANDERER. BY Louis Gold
ing. New York: Farrar e. Rine-
hart.
This group Of casuals, tales hardly
elaborated enough to be called fin
ished short stories, has in it little
to identify 1t with the style Of the
| author of Magnolia Street" and
give Silver Daughters" though the
location Of some Of them in booming
ton does form a connecting link.
The tales are varied, tragic and gay.
realistic and fantastic, plausible and
unfathomably mysterious, with set
tings as far apart as London and
Bessarabia. They suggest rummag-
ing In the manuscript chest, but a
rummaging which has produced some
minor objets dart. Mr.. Golding Is
no amateur in writing and handles
whatever subject he chooses In a way
to give 1t distinction. Some Of the
best Of the tales are Divinity In
| Deauville," which tells Of the madness
of James Pendon of Brixton, insur-
ance agent, over q Hollywood actress
and his too-late awakening: Miss
Pomfret and Miss Primrose" a
feminine idyl of two spinsters who
console each others loneliness briefly;
1.-THE Man In the White Tie" tale
| of madness or Of a ghost, whichever
| you choose, and "Wimpole's Woe, "
which relates the troubles Of literary
critic.
TWO ON sAFARI. BY George Agnew
Chamberlain. Indianapolis: The
Bobbs- Merrill Co.
The East African adventure in this
new novel OF Mr.. Chamberlain will
carry it with many readers who like
| to travel dangerously and vicariously.
Others will be captivated by the SEN
sational plot, in spite of its lack OF
plausibility. Still others will un-
doubtedly absorb with sympathetic in
| terest the hackneyed device of stimu-
| lating sex interest to which the au-
thor resorts. even though they know
from the start that Josephine Casco-
den's antipathy toward Ballard NAL
lory (she shrinks from his touch but
forces. herself on him for a safarD
| will end in a lovers denouement.
Though not typical mystery story,
| there Is a mystery involved IN the
| safari of the American Ballard NAL
lory into East Africa in search OF
the Hon. Laurence Morland. When
| he is engaged by Lord Morland OF
Morland to go on the quest, he is
told that II he finds Laurence alive
he will receive 100 pounds month
| until his return; but If he brings back
evidence Of the young mans death ne
will receive a bonus of 5000 pounds.
The hint contained in the offer Is
suficiently broad to be understood by
| any one Of average intelligence. Bal
lard sets out; on the boat to Africa
meets the attractive English girl, 10
Cascoden, who unconscionably at
taches herself to him, against his vio-
lent protests. They find Laurence
| Morland, who almost crowds the hero
| OF the stage. and the final love
| scene Is a moonlight night in the
| Jungle. with lions roaring In the dis
tance, and Morland also present.
INTERLUDE OF GOLD. BY James
F. Gordon. New York: Fleming
H. Revel Co.
A business man, a traveller, a man
with Unsuitable curiosity and serious
interest as regards both people and
places, Mr.. Gordon has here written
q novel of suficient plot entertain
ment to satisfy the most exacting
demands for abundant action, and
has also embodied in his story a
philosophy which is a good antidote
for the postwar defeatism so COM
mon in fiction and biography today
Life as IAN interlude Of gold" may
seem to some sentimental concept
but it is an inspiring and helpful one
Because Joy and beauty and serenity
are not always easily grapsed does moi
mean that they are non-existent
They are q possible possession FOL
human beings, Mr.. Gordon says, il
their ideals remain steadfast and mt
in q world disturbed by conflicts ar1s'
ing from too rapid changes.
But Mr.. Gordon's novel Is not
sermon. It is the story Of Larry
Stevens. coming home from France
on Armistice day. and humorously
KIDNAPPING Ann Blake on the crowded
streets of New York-Ann, who short
time before had reflected that shs
would probably sometime marry Alar
Trowbridge OF course, she does not
marry Alan. We do not for a moment
expect that she will. Beginning In
| PHILADELPHIA and New York, the scene
of the story shifts to Burma through
a retrospect of Larry's and his father s
life, and the yellow-robed figure Of
lie Favre, the radiant Buddhist priest
assumes the importance he is always
to have in Larry's life. From him
Larry acquires faith in the ultimate
high destiny Of all humanity and
through that faith is able to alter
AIMS conventional way Of thought
and action. She learns from Larry
and LIE Favre that dreams are worth
while whether or not they ever come
true. "Interlude of Gold" Is for those
to whom the surface of life is but the
shell, for whom the real life Is the
life OF thought and dreams. 1t is
written with the enthusiasm OF one
who has belle1.
THE INEVITABLE WORLD REcov-
ERY. An Examination OF the Be-
haviour of Money and Forecast
BY Harold Fisher. New YORK:
Doubleday, Doran & Co.
This title has a cheerful sound. like
Voltaire's best of all possible worlds in
"Candide." If. under present condi-
tions in the British textile industry
Mr.. Fisher, who is woolen manufac-
turer, can be optimistic, his views are
at least of some interest. They are
quite definite, not merely pipe dreams
! however their prophecy may turn out
He believes q new trade cycle Is under
way which will bring such prosperity
throughout the world as has never
vet been known. The gold standard
tradition came to an end, he says
| when the United States abandoned ii
in April, 1888. He dramatically pic
lures the nations Of the world strug-
Cling like inhabitants of the Inferno
to roll Sisyphus ball which looks like
gold up hill and from time to time
being crushed by it as it rolls back