Evening star., 1936-05-16

living In Hawaii, where she had de-
cided to end her wanderings. Her
state Of mind can be imagined from
her observation, II can swim and have
the sand and large brown rocks and
the long stretch Of cocoanuts trees.
as write this my mind travelle to
Zeurich Switzerlan Zufolo Iseral
Philistine Sweden and Madras, Cey-
lon and Smiling faces stands out be-
fore me- I say good morning and eat
nice pineapple the sweetest that
grown The Birds are awaken and III
soon have to dress"
When the cheque for her articles
arrived she enlarged her life only by
giving up her job and buying a tent.
7x7, with q light floor that she could
carry on her head If she decided to
move She was assisted in setting up
her housekeeping by the neighborhood
children-about IS Of them-and "a
sweetheart" of whom she says, Il
had planned that Tent to be Taboo,
but the first minute in 1t had to let
Him Kiss me-"
She is there today and she says, "
want always to be where health.
youth, beauty and gayness are, al
though I need very little for myself
I Just want to be in the midst of it.
One wishes her long life. She seems
to know how to use it.
THE LONG EXILE. BY Eugene
Lohrke. New York: D. Appleton
Century Co.
THE author Of this book is the man
who last year wrote the curiously
unforgettable The First Bus Out. "
That was essentially q study in
retrospective writing, its device being
that a group of people board . bus,
thinking that they are going to
various destinations. whereas they are
all actually dead, but not yet aware
of death.
Mr.. Lohfke handled that material
finely, using a distant, lulling prose
rhythm that implied much and was
without trickery. His present book is
another retrospective piece. It, too,
is finely done. although it will prob
ably not appeal to as many readers
as the first. 1t Is the story Of Ger
man-American business man who, on
the evening Of the day when a
fortunate deal on the market has made
him wealthy. looks back over his life
and finds it empty. He has a hand
some home, q charming family, an
admirable position. But, by tempera-
ment over-sensitive and over-dicta-
torial. he Is cut on from any real re-
lationship with the things his money
has purchased. And his life has gone
into getting them.
1t is q very close study into a GER
tain type Of masculine psychology,
showing how q man. whose entire
existence is an expression Of selfish
ness, can rationalize, to his own
satisfaction at least his conduct into
such admirable terms as justice,
discipline. dignity, honesty and even
pride. It goes, too, beyond these gen.
eral terms. In its hero's sentimental
love for his daughters. his domineering
attachment to his wife, his emotional
reverence for his mother and his
downright hatred Of his two young
sons-hardly more than babies, but
still masculine, and 50 to be regarded
with jealousy-there is some spiritual
dissecting Of kind seldom to be met
with in modern fiction.
Yet the author has nowhere entered
into realistic" kind of writing. His
book Is gentle and sad in tone, he ex-
tends to his unhappy hero tolerance
and understanding. As in the previous
book, his prose Is distant and quiet.
The violence of the hero's feelings is
explained, rather than demonstrated.
The work becomes q study of q man
in a cage, the cage Of his own nature
The subject might have interested
Dostoevsky, but the mood is Mr.
Lohrke's own-patient, sorrowful, re-
moved. He seems highly accomplish
ed at this sort Of examination of the
human soul. One must watch him
with interest.
D. H. LAWRENCE-A PERSONAL
RECORD BY E. T. Introduction
by ]. Middleton Murry. New York:
knight Publications.
or ALL the books that associates
Of the late Lawrence have writ
ten about him, none has been COM