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in Arthur Schnitzler’s Flight Into
Nov 7-31
An important book of the weck 18
Darkliess. Schüitzler writes graph¬
Arthur Schnitzler’s Flight Into
Manhattan Side-Show“ by Kon¬
ically of a man's descent into mad¬
Darkness.“ Schnitzler writes graph¬
rad Bercovici (Century) is filled with
ness. The book is psychologically
ically of a man's descent into mad¬
great names but it is mediocre
clehr, and tells a sterg that holds one
ness. The book is psychologically
alongside some of the author’s other
with morbid faseination.
clear, and tells a story that holds
wor
one with morbid fascination.
Also published this weck are
Sins of Amer’sa—As Exposed by
the Police Gazette,“ by Edward Van
Galsworthy’s new play.The Roof;
Every (Stokes), is a companion vol¬
Rcosevelt in the Rough,“ br Jack
ume to Sins of New York.“ Thomas
Willis: and "Enterprise,“ by. Harold
Beer does the introduction.
S. Vanderbilt,
New York reviewers are cheering

lustily for Clemence Dane’s Broome
Stage.“
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have
Simon and Schuster
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brough out Arthur
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short novel, Flig
Robert Riplez
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Starrett (Doubleday, Dol
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should be rated ne
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tery stories.
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Neu Tork, Nov. 7—In steiking com¬
King A
memoration, a week oneo after the
who took personal commar
death offarthur schafftzler, Austral-t it is not a horror stofy and
trope during the world war. Gales
Llan novelist anürämatist, comes the lmake your eyes moist
account presents a first-hand ar
publication offhis last novel, Flight
Gtto will kill him grows into a per-Peis of the king’s tactics, attitude t
Into Darkness,
sécution-mania.
ward his men, and position during
Schnitzler spreads bare bofore us the
uthe war.
The dark and fantastio pcwers of
iater life and thoughts of a man who
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this mania press him to desperation.
is afraid of going made.
and carry him one to a climax that is
The story begins when Robert
superb in its inevitability.
senses the shadow of a mental dis¬
##Flight Into Darkness“ 1s a master¬
turbance. He notices that his left
ful psychological study. Schnitzler's
eyelid droops lower than the right,
clear, simple style and his naturalness
and fears that this is a symptom of
of approach also create a story that
mental disease.
grips attention. Though a short nov¬
Through the complexities of self¬
el, the book is dramatically intense.
doubt and slackening mental con¬
Finis
trel, and through a labyrinth of in¬
trospection, Schnitzler traces Rob¬
In its penetration into a man's
ert’s gradual Breakdown.
character and mind, its clear presen¬
Early in life, after brooding over a
tation of a subtle and involved situ¬
friend's insanity, Robert had given
ation and its highly sustaflied inter¬
Gazette
his brother Ott a decument authoriz¬
est, Flight Into Darkness,“ stands as
Haverhi1l Nass
ing Otto, a physician, to kill him
a worthy final mark of Schnitzler's
fame.
painlessly, should he show signs of
madnes.
Noy 7-31
The first volume of John Drink¬
When the terror actually begins te

water’s autoblography, Inheritance.“/
close around him, Robert develops a
gives an informal and charming ac¬
Descent Into Madness
dread that Otto will carry out this
count of his life before theage of 15,
request
An important bock of the week is

and of his ancestray.
Robert becomes more abnormal, in
His family background is #
action and reasoning. Realizing this,
Arthur Schnitzler's Flight Into Dark¬
against the larger scene of eighteenth#
and no longer wishing to die if he
century England. Weralso M# not
ness.“ Schnitzler writes graphically
Dedames insane, Robert’s fear that
only of a boy's ninetgenth centuryt
of a man's descent into madness. The
book is psychologically clear, and tells
a storg that holds one with morbid
fascination. Other Rooks
Also published this week are Gals¬
3
4r
worthy's new play, The Roof“
Roosevelt in the Rough,“ by Jgo#
Willis; and Enterprise,“ by Haped S.
Vanderbilt.
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