34
iel im Morgendrauen
S # e an en de. n I. 40 I. d.
Stterunac.-
Aula ∆
Arthur Schnitzler 's
neinocel, Daybreak
has just been pub¬
lished.
0
HATlife and love are
— G games of chance is the
central idea of this new novel hr
ARTHUR ScHNITZLER.
Davbreak is the latest and perhaps
ihe most exeiling novel in the series
launched several vears ago hv that
Popal Hawlessiv cut' Franlein Eise.
To save a friend from a gambling
disgrace Lientenant Willi involves him¬
seif in a debt ten times as great, and
seeks as a saviour his uncle’s voung
wife, who had plaved a part in a casnal
amour ofthe past.
With deftness and Schnitzlerian
nnance the story moves 10 a poignant
elimnax at thie second daybreak.
Here is a story of Vienna and
SCHNITZLER all compact.
Everrichere: 81.50
Simon und Schuster
37 West 57ih Street
ven vork 610 —4
05
DAYBREAK, by Arthur Schmitzler (Sinon
Schuster). Pre-war Vienna and a
dung oflicer’s gamble with lise, love.
andthe rest, done with Schnitzler': usual
finesse.
/7• N Auuhahr
box 6/1
4
7
NEWS O.
Sereeen Aeenten
The Firs
2 By Harr,
The question of when to stop at the
gaming tables is best answered by the
simple advice: Don't start!“ If man¬
kind followed that advice, there would
be no psychological exhlbits for the
novelist who wants to tell you how a
gambler conducts himself.
Arthur Schnitzler, whose keen ob¬
servation of human alfairs is second
nature to him, tries it in Daybreak,“
a norel of distllusion. His character,
Wilhens. a Lleutenant in the Austrian
Army, passes through the struggle that
comes to most people who put their
money on a sure thing.
In order to win the slight sum of
1.000 gulden, which an intimate friend
needs in order to cover up a defalca¬
tion. Wilhelm finds luck with him and
wins beyond his expectations. He
leaves the tables, returns; he Is in¬
terrupted, but goes back: fate inter¬
venes in tire form of a train that he
must take; he misses it by a minute.
And then, returning to the tables
once more, he begins to lose, and loses
untll the 1.000-gulden note which he
had reserved for his friend is also gone:
with his last few gulden he begins to
win again. Finally. playing desperute¬
ly, be loses heavily, and at the end
owes 11.000 gulden, and not only his
friend’s disgrace but his own dishonor
stare him in the face.
Schnitzler is primarily a dramatist.
and a most accomplished one, and in
these studies of human psychology and
conduct he never forgets the dramatie
situation. With the next step in the
tale we may querrel—it seems unreal.
nocording to Eugene O’Neill, but it 1s
pat. according to the tactics of Ana¬
col“ and “Reigen,“ For when Lleut.
Wilhelm ppeals to his rich uncle fer
the mone) ne learns that his uncle
has turned his fortung over to che lady
he has just married, and this Indy hap¬
pens to be a light-hearted lass of in¬
different repute with whom Wilhelm
was at one time on fairly intlmate
terms.
Should one disparage a lady just be¬
rause she once Ilved a bit lightly?
Indeed no: In fact, Wilhelm takes
pains to tell his uncle that such girls
may#ke good wives, no doubt do,
Lwhercas girls with excellent reputa¬
tions and coming from good families
often gave their husbands terrible sur¬
prises.“ Wilhelm pretended not to re¬
member the lady very well, but after
he left his uncle it occurred to him to
leok her up. for she was, efter all. the
custodi#1 of bis uncle's fortune.
To unveli the tale still farther would
be unjurt to an author who depends
80 much on a startling denonement to
make his polnt. He does it with his
usual deftness. The tale is not as art¬
less as Fraulein Else,“ nor so tense, bu
Schnitzler packs into 200 slight page
what few novellsts achieve In 400. I'n
tor Him.
So are his publishers, Simor
& Schüster
iel im Morgendrauen
S # e an en de. n I. 40 I. d.
Stterunac.-
Aula ∆
Arthur Schnitzler 's
neinocel, Daybreak
has just been pub¬
lished.
0
HATlife and love are
— G games of chance is the
central idea of this new novel hr
ARTHUR ScHNITZLER.
Davbreak is the latest and perhaps
ihe most exeiling novel in the series
launched several vears ago hv that
Popal Hawlessiv cut' Franlein Eise.
To save a friend from a gambling
disgrace Lientenant Willi involves him¬
seif in a debt ten times as great, and
seeks as a saviour his uncle’s voung
wife, who had plaved a part in a casnal
amour ofthe past.
With deftness and Schnitzlerian
nnance the story moves 10 a poignant
elimnax at thie second daybreak.
Here is a story of Vienna and
SCHNITZLER all compact.
Everrichere: 81.50
Simon und Schuster
37 West 57ih Street
ven vork 610 —4
05
DAYBREAK, by Arthur Schmitzler (Sinon
Schuster). Pre-war Vienna and a
dung oflicer’s gamble with lise, love.
andthe rest, done with Schnitzler': usual
finesse.
/7• N Auuhahr
box 6/1
4
7
NEWS O.
Sereeen Aeenten
The Firs
2 By Harr,
The question of when to stop at the
gaming tables is best answered by the
simple advice: Don't start!“ If man¬
kind followed that advice, there would
be no psychological exhlbits for the
novelist who wants to tell you how a
gambler conducts himself.
Arthur Schnitzler, whose keen ob¬
servation of human alfairs is second
nature to him, tries it in Daybreak,“
a norel of distllusion. His character,
Wilhens. a Lleutenant in the Austrian
Army, passes through the struggle that
comes to most people who put their
money on a sure thing.
In order to win the slight sum of
1.000 gulden, which an intimate friend
needs in order to cover up a defalca¬
tion. Wilhelm finds luck with him and
wins beyond his expectations. He
leaves the tables, returns; he Is in¬
terrupted, but goes back: fate inter¬
venes in tire form of a train that he
must take; he misses it by a minute.
And then, returning to the tables
once more, he begins to lose, and loses
untll the 1.000-gulden note which he
had reserved for his friend is also gone:
with his last few gulden he begins to
win again. Finally. playing desperute¬
ly, be loses heavily, and at the end
owes 11.000 gulden, and not only his
friend’s disgrace but his own dishonor
stare him in the face.
Schnitzler is primarily a dramatist.
and a most accomplished one, and in
these studies of human psychology and
conduct he never forgets the dramatie
situation. With the next step in the
tale we may querrel—it seems unreal.
nocording to Eugene O’Neill, but it 1s
pat. according to the tactics of Ana¬
col“ and “Reigen,“ For when Lleut.
Wilhelm ppeals to his rich uncle fer
the mone) ne learns that his uncle
has turned his fortung over to che lady
he has just married, and this Indy hap¬
pens to be a light-hearted lass of in¬
different repute with whom Wilhelm
was at one time on fairly intlmate
terms.
Should one disparage a lady just be¬
rause she once Ilved a bit lightly?
Indeed no: In fact, Wilhelm takes
pains to tell his uncle that such girls
may#ke good wives, no doubt do,
Lwhercas girls with excellent reputa¬
tions and coming from good families
often gave their husbands terrible sur¬
prises.“ Wilhelm pretended not to re¬
member the lady very well, but after
he left his uncle it occurred to him to
leok her up. for she was, efter all. the
custodi#1 of bis uncle's fortune.
To unveli the tale still farther would
be unjurt to an author who depends
80 much on a startling denonement to
make his polnt. He does it with his
usual deftness. The tale is not as art¬
less as Fraulein Else,“ nor so tense, bu
Schnitzler packs into 200 slight page
what few novellsts achieve In 400. I'n
tor Him.
So are his publishers, Simor
& Schüster