Therese
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, JULY 22, 1928
Au
Sseee
and Goethe. The famous episode
Müselli Wor
of the second part of Faust“ sym¬
the director
bolizes the highly desirable union
Museum and
of classic benuty and the modern
two cionths o
A New Novel by Arthur Schnitzler
spirit. What a symbol, this Helen!
100 institution
More resplendent by far than some
and Canada.
insignificant reality! It little mat¬
lication, runn
THER.TSE. A Novel. By Arthurconsblate, weary volce murmurs: and even attempts to do so, and
Schniteler. Berlin: S. Fischer.
#ters, therefore, whether or not she
only, but Dr.
All is vanity! Do you not see how
yet she lets it live. Thus Therese
GEWALT UBER DAS FEUER
actually lived in the flesh.
a good deal in
slips through her drab life, until
every one of these bourgeois fam¬
(The Conquest of Fire).
Meilhac, Halévy and Offenbach
The compet
Novel.
she is strangled by her worthless
Bu Hans Friedrich
ilies has been undermined? Even
made a charming operetta of La
books is mor
son.
Blunck. Jena: Eugen Diede¬
the best of them have neither a
richs.
Belle Hélène;“ and it really is no
their authors
In the end this most subtly ar¬
heart nor any sense; even when it
less respectful than the scene
have now, for
BERLIN.
tistic description of the soul of an
is their intention to be kind they
of Aristophanes' Thesmophories.“
ton-Smith's
NEW long novel by Arthur
inferior character leaves only
forget it immediately for selfish
Jules Lemaitre produced a Bonne
London“ (Kn
A Schnitzler is quite a literary
dull impression of decay and the
interests. Everything is putres¬
Hélène'' which is even more of a
event, for this subtle, prolific
musty odor of a crumbling class of lars of the ##
cent and wretchedly Involved in
parody and satire, but is written
society.
novelist and dramatist has pub¬
Thouses, incluc
paltry little vices and apathetic de¬
in Alexandrine verse. Verhaeren's
their manager
lishec only two long novels so far.
sires. Not one of these dignified
Hélène de Sparte“ is more serl¬
And—let us be honest—they have
THILE the Austrian authorof their deco
masters refrains Trom annoying
ous. Hugo von Hoffmansthal wrote
revealed no essentially unknown
VV concerns himself with in- dishes and th
the poor governess; not one of her
a Helen of Egypt.“ after Eurip¬
aspects of his character. Despite
dolent grace and vague sym- tele. Anothen
mistresses manifests the slightest
ides, which Richard Strauss set
some beautiful passages in Der
pathy with the decline of a onceFreeston's.“
trace of human understanding. Oe¬
to music, and which has just been
Weg ins Freie,“ despite his deli¬
lovable and cultured nation, thei for the Motor
casionally the children become at¬
played in Dresden.
cate dissection of a feminine soul
North German Hans Friedrich is crammed #
tached to her—but she is forgotten
most wanted
in Frau Bertha Garlan,“ the ef¬
Blunck boldly attacks the first be¬
almost as soon as she leaves the
T ME. GERARD D’HONVILLE
ably through
ginnings of human civilization. In
fect of his pessimistic view of lifehouse. As for Therese herself—
IVI naturally admires Helen, and
cars can trave
this last novel of his trilogy of
here is, on the whole, not tragic,alas! she is a pitiful but most un¬
is very sympathetic toward
most popular
but depressing.
prehistoric times he goes back to
pleasant creature. The author as¬
her; but not without some most
Jeclares that
Therese,“ the story of a poor
the earliest ages, accessible only
sures us that she is beautiful,
piquant irony. Helen herself is
hairpin bends
governess wandering from position
to the imagination. It is a most
faithful to her duties, and capable
supposed to be telling the story of
the exquisite
to position, is a study in unrelieved
curious literary phenomenon, the
in her work. We find it hard to
her adventures to her young at¬
from the Tyrol
gray.
manner in which tbis healthy man
tendant Erato. Hidden behind a
believe the latter statement, for of the present lets his fancy play
printing had
In Schnitzler’s short storles the
even in her middle years her head
curtain is Telemache, who has
for he is doon
magic of his style, his weary ro¬
about these still animal-like hordes
is still full of her innemerable love
come to ask Menelaus for news of
stay at home.
which, barely risen from slime and
manticism and a certain vague, affairs. And unfortunately her in¬
Ulysses, as in the fourth book of
away into a de
mud, wander through the swamps
fascinating mysticism weave a con-stinct in these matters is, from the
the Odyssey.
cealing web about the author’s dis¬
and, apelike, seek refuge in the
very beginning, mistaken and even
The daughter of Zeus and Leda
gust with life and mankind. In
trees at the approach of danger,
TTHIE Trage
morbid, making her always prefer
goes back to her early childhood
Therese“' this disgust appears be¬
fleeing wildly through the forests,,
(Gollancz)
the ne’er-do-well to the fine, in¬
1
in an envirchment of pagan nature,
fore us naked and unadorned.
swinging themselves from branch
tional titl
dustrious man. Poor Therese never
still full of demi-gods, satyrs and
Schnitzler never shouts—he is far
to branch; forced to migrate con¬
book by Dr. W
knöws just what she wants. She
nymphs. Mme. Gérard d’Honvil:
too civilized to give loud utterance
stantly from plate to place, they
will be a psych
sins constantly, despite her inten¬
paints a delightful pieture, which
to his passions; but on every page
huddle together in mountain caves
a historical stug
tion to remain virtuous; she does
would have pleased her father,
to escäpe wild animals and the
In, Day Out,“
of his new heck, behind every fig-not want a child, but gets one
José-Maria de Heredia. What abure that is presented to us. a dis- none the less; she wants to kill lt.
(Contined on Page 17)
box 6/2
35 41 22
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, JULY 22, 1928
Au
Sseee
and Goethe. The famous episode
Müselli Wor
of the second part of Faust“ sym¬
the director
bolizes the highly desirable union
Museum and
of classic benuty and the modern
two cionths o
A New Novel by Arthur Schnitzler
spirit. What a symbol, this Helen!
100 institution
More resplendent by far than some
and Canada.
insignificant reality! It little mat¬
lication, runn
THER.TSE. A Novel. By Arthurconsblate, weary volce murmurs: and even attempts to do so, and
Schniteler. Berlin: S. Fischer.
#ters, therefore, whether or not she
only, but Dr.
All is vanity! Do you not see how
yet she lets it live. Thus Therese
GEWALT UBER DAS FEUER
actually lived in the flesh.
a good deal in
slips through her drab life, until
every one of these bourgeois fam¬
(The Conquest of Fire).
Meilhac, Halévy and Offenbach
The compet
Novel.
she is strangled by her worthless
Bu Hans Friedrich
ilies has been undermined? Even
made a charming operetta of La
books is mor
son.
Blunck. Jena: Eugen Diede¬
the best of them have neither a
richs.
Belle Hélène;“ and it really is no
their authors
In the end this most subtly ar¬
heart nor any sense; even when it
less respectful than the scene
have now, for
BERLIN.
tistic description of the soul of an
is their intention to be kind they
of Aristophanes' Thesmophories.“
ton-Smith's
NEW long novel by Arthur
inferior character leaves only
forget it immediately for selfish
Jules Lemaitre produced a Bonne
London“ (Kn
A Schnitzler is quite a literary
dull impression of decay and the
interests. Everything is putres¬
Hélène'' which is even more of a
event, for this subtle, prolific
musty odor of a crumbling class of lars of the ##
cent and wretchedly Involved in
parody and satire, but is written
society.
novelist and dramatist has pub¬
Thouses, incluc
paltry little vices and apathetic de¬
in Alexandrine verse. Verhaeren's
their manager
lishec only two long novels so far.
sires. Not one of these dignified
Hélène de Sparte“ is more serl¬
And—let us be honest—they have
THILE the Austrian authorof their deco
masters refrains Trom annoying
ous. Hugo von Hoffmansthal wrote
revealed no essentially unknown
VV concerns himself with in- dishes and th
the poor governess; not one of her
a Helen of Egypt.“ after Eurip¬
aspects of his character. Despite
dolent grace and vague sym- tele. Anothen
mistresses manifests the slightest
ides, which Richard Strauss set
some beautiful passages in Der
pathy with the decline of a onceFreeston's.“
trace of human understanding. Oe¬
to music, and which has just been
Weg ins Freie,“ despite his deli¬
lovable and cultured nation, thei for the Motor
casionally the children become at¬
played in Dresden.
cate dissection of a feminine soul
North German Hans Friedrich is crammed #
tached to her—but she is forgotten
most wanted
in Frau Bertha Garlan,“ the ef¬
Blunck boldly attacks the first be¬
almost as soon as she leaves the
T ME. GERARD D’HONVILLE
ably through
ginnings of human civilization. In
fect of his pessimistic view of lifehouse. As for Therese herself—
IVI naturally admires Helen, and
cars can trave
this last novel of his trilogy of
here is, on the whole, not tragic,alas! she is a pitiful but most un¬
is very sympathetic toward
most popular
but depressing.
prehistoric times he goes back to
pleasant creature. The author as¬
her; but not without some most
Jeclares that
Therese,“ the story of a poor
the earliest ages, accessible only
sures us that she is beautiful,
piquant irony. Helen herself is
hairpin bends
governess wandering from position
to the imagination. It is a most
faithful to her duties, and capable
supposed to be telling the story of
the exquisite
to position, is a study in unrelieved
curious literary phenomenon, the
in her work. We find it hard to
her adventures to her young at¬
from the Tyrol
gray.
manner in which tbis healthy man
tendant Erato. Hidden behind a
believe the latter statement, for of the present lets his fancy play
printing had
In Schnitzler’s short storles the
even in her middle years her head
curtain is Telemache, who has
for he is doon
magic of his style, his weary ro¬
about these still animal-like hordes
is still full of her innemerable love
come to ask Menelaus for news of
stay at home.
which, barely risen from slime and
manticism and a certain vague, affairs. And unfortunately her in¬
Ulysses, as in the fourth book of
away into a de
mud, wander through the swamps
fascinating mysticism weave a con-stinct in these matters is, from the
the Odyssey.
cealing web about the author’s dis¬
and, apelike, seek refuge in the
very beginning, mistaken and even
The daughter of Zeus and Leda
gust with life and mankind. In
trees at the approach of danger,
TTHIE Trage
morbid, making her always prefer
goes back to her early childhood
Therese“' this disgust appears be¬
fleeing wildly through the forests,,
(Gollancz)
the ne’er-do-well to the fine, in¬
1
in an envirchment of pagan nature,
fore us naked and unadorned.
swinging themselves from branch
tional titl
dustrious man. Poor Therese never
still full of demi-gods, satyrs and
Schnitzler never shouts—he is far
to branch; forced to migrate con¬
book by Dr. W
knöws just what she wants. She
nymphs. Mme. Gérard d’Honvil:
too civilized to give loud utterance
stantly from plate to place, they
will be a psych
sins constantly, despite her inten¬
paints a delightful pieture, which
to his passions; but on every page
huddle together in mountain caves
a historical stug
tion to remain virtuous; she does
would have pleased her father,
to escäpe wild animals and the
In, Day Out,“
of his new heck, behind every fig-not want a child, but gets one
José-Maria de Heredia. What abure that is presented to us. a dis- none the less; she wants to kill lt.
(Contined on Page 17)