29. Doktor Graesl
Badearzt
box 4/9
TEAICSTeT ;EAT
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1924.
(Thornton
the Age“ ranks with“ Growth of the Soil.“
of extraordi
This it can hardly be said to do. The develop¬
N NOVELS.
ing in imagi
ment of Segelfoss is rather a study, a tenta¬
theless ren
tive step towards the far greater epie; the
originality.
“ marriage? theine is that of“ Wanderers??
DR. GRAESLER.
has the attr:
again. The Segelfoss stories, it should be¬
Srhur Schnitzler's Dk. Gaarsurk (Chap¬
intimate kne
noted, belong to the anthor’s middle period,
man and Hall, 78. 6d. net) is written in a
a just and
carlier than“ Growth of the Soil.' English
vein of irony which loses a good deal in trans¬
Chinese min
translations of Hamsun have not followed
lation. The sedate ridlieule and bland
Francisco’s C
the chronological order of the originals. In
mockery of the story are perhaps not easilg
Bra elings te
future editions, a brief note stating the posi¬
reproduced in any language other than
murder, and
tion of each in the author’s production would
German. Schnitzler, moreover, is a stylist of
the intention
help the reader to appreciate Hamsun’s work
highly individual character. The present
differenees
as a whole.
transiation bv Mr. E. C. Slade, although it
rather than
sometimes misses the finer shades of mean¬
reader.
CHRISTOPHER AND CRESSIDA.
ing, is nevertheless fairly sound. The timid
Considering
adventures of middle age—the caution and
When Mr. Montgomery Carmichacl gears
of many of
indecision with which it greets new promises
ago published“ The Life of J. W. Walshe“
he is comm
and old illusions—are excellent material for
mang readers were surprised, and indeed dis¬
He is
not cast a g
Schnitzler’s cool, sardonie humour.
mayed, to learn that it was not after all the
cynical withont being embittered. He does
enstoms of th
biography of a modern saint, but a subtly dis¬
not flaunt his disillusionment, but his uncon¬
denily studiec
guised work of fiction. in CHRISTOPHER AND
the
tion of
cerned, careless manner is allthe more wither¬
Cnessina (Macdonald and Evans, 5s. net),
But tire more
ing as a consequence. Gracsler is a physician
which is a sequel to“ The Solitaries of the
to emphasize
at a health resort, a man of fortgeight, of
Sambuca,there is little attempt to re¬
What is murd
modest ambitions and temperate habits. His
peat this harmless mystification; but here
is neither les¬
daily routine is nicely ordered, and he enjoys
again we do not feel that the interest of the
his own sense of professional responsibility.
rigliteousness
book is the interest proper to a work of fiction.
connnittees #
Tet he is disturbed by impulses and made
A plot, indsed, it has, though antique and
feuds bv Arbit
melancholy by enthusiasms ill-suited to his
simple, anid its characters are anything but
prestige f ihe
Fears. His sister’s suieide adds something of
puppets designed to give voice to religions or
and the prof
resentment to his vague and trivial restless¬
moral iceas. They are few, and they may
avenge an ins
ness. Incredible that Friederike,“ a mature
not be portrayed with the complexity and
looked upon as
spinster,“ should suddenly have gone mad.
eagerness for detail that mark the psycholo¬
of the stories in
But her support is withdrawn, and he is com¬
gieal novelis“; but they live, with a touch of
pelled to attend to domestie details. Trreso¬
tions of these k
the rudeness andi innocence of heroes and
sequence of th
lute and lacking in self-confidence, he hardly
heroines in epic or ballad poetry.
smugglers and
dares aspire to marry Sabine, still less, as a
Like these heroes and heroines, moreover,
are indirectly cc
step towards marriage, take over the-sana¬
they are not shown for their own sake, but to
torium. He will not confess that the least
younger genera
illustrate a theme. That theme is the one
of Western cult
prospect of change is irksome and frightening.
that regularly inspires Mr. Carmichael—the
of the Chinese,
When Sabine declares her friendship for him
conviction, mystical rather than religions in
his pride is repelled. After all, he is an eccen¬
piety, the sub
the mere pedestrian sense, that the will of
trie, an egoist, an old fogey. He neither can
their mourning
God and the whole duty of man are perfectly
nor ought accept the happiness she is ready
ccrenionies, allc
plain to those who are ready to fulfil them
to bring him: he is destined to lifelong soli¬
ing of Confuciu:
withont reserves. It is through paltering
best of these:s
with conscientions convietions, though in an
The three storief
Dimly aware that he cannot retrieve his
apparently slight way, that Christopher
figure the impas
blunder, but determined to refute Sabine's
Mavourez and Cressida Vanghan lose the
are easily the b
charge of weakness, he plunges into the affair
fruition of their love and fall into a pit of ruin
in order the ti
with Katharina. His brief spell of exeitement
out of which thev elimb only by the way of
unduly prolonge
convinces him that it is merelg a prelude 1o
long suffering and penance. Atthe root ofthe
planning swift
the happiness he has quigotically discarded.
tale, as readers of the author’s former beoks
cnemies, medital
With a new self-assurance he leaves her for
will not be surprised to find, lies the un¬
strangely mus
the woman“ whose advances he had spurned
compromising dogmatism and severity of
Cantonese, expr
in an unwarrantable fit of self-distrust,“ is
Joseph de Maistre’s philosophy. Its harsh
words of the ms
rejected, and vainly flies back to Katharina.
angles are however, if not softened, at anv
a gentleman is
There is nothing left for him, he tells him¬
rate consolingly irradiated, by Mr. Carmichael’s
is acmirably con
*No one can
self in meaningless phirases.
own tenderness of imagination, which is far
get out of his own skin, man or woman.
reinoved from the spirit of the theologieal
As for me, I was born to be a prig and a
martinet ihom he claims to follow. This
In addition te
Philistine.“ Withont consolation or symnpathy.
tenderness and splendour of fancy are shown
Wife,“ the scene
he secks his old friend Böhlinger. Gracsler
Maidenhead to
especially in the history of the Mavourez
knows by now that Böhlinger is one of the
family, an old Catholie and Cavalier house,
Grant Richards
many lovers his sister Friederike had had.
romance by Arr
filled with heraldie and antiquarian enthu¬
She had given up life because it conld no
siasmns, which has handed down to its last
duction to the l
longer offer her the pleasure she had once
new novel br I
descendant (who is to disgrace it awhile by
enjoyed in abundance. For him there is no
becoming a common swindler) a power of
and a new editi¬
renunciation: there is Fran Sommer, the
second sight opening gorgeous vistas of the
tain Margaret.
plump, pretty. dubious widow who had shown
celestial world like primitive paintings to the
hirn so much kindness in his bereavement.
inner eye. Cressida, the daugliter of an Angli¬
can elergyman, who invents faise vocations for
— LI
Badearzt
box 4/9
TEAICSTeT ;EAT
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1924.
(Thornton
the Age“ ranks with“ Growth of the Soil.“
of extraordi
This it can hardly be said to do. The develop¬
N NOVELS.
ing in imagi
ment of Segelfoss is rather a study, a tenta¬
theless ren
tive step towards the far greater epie; the
originality.
“ marriage? theine is that of“ Wanderers??
DR. GRAESLER.
has the attr:
again. The Segelfoss stories, it should be¬
Srhur Schnitzler's Dk. Gaarsurk (Chap¬
intimate kne
noted, belong to the anthor’s middle period,
man and Hall, 78. 6d. net) is written in a
a just and
carlier than“ Growth of the Soil.' English
vein of irony which loses a good deal in trans¬
Chinese min
translations of Hamsun have not followed
lation. The sedate ridlieule and bland
Francisco’s C
the chronological order of the originals. In
mockery of the story are perhaps not easilg
Bra elings te
future editions, a brief note stating the posi¬
reproduced in any language other than
murder, and
tion of each in the author’s production would
German. Schnitzler, moreover, is a stylist of
the intention
help the reader to appreciate Hamsun’s work
highly individual character. The present
differenees
as a whole.
transiation bv Mr. E. C. Slade, although it
rather than
sometimes misses the finer shades of mean¬
reader.
CHRISTOPHER AND CRESSIDA.
ing, is nevertheless fairly sound. The timid
Considering
adventures of middle age—the caution and
When Mr. Montgomery Carmichacl gears
of many of
indecision with which it greets new promises
ago published“ The Life of J. W. Walshe“
he is comm
and old illusions—are excellent material for
mang readers were surprised, and indeed dis¬
He is
not cast a g
Schnitzler’s cool, sardonie humour.
mayed, to learn that it was not after all the
cynical withont being embittered. He does
enstoms of th
biography of a modern saint, but a subtly dis¬
not flaunt his disillusionment, but his uncon¬
denily studiec
guised work of fiction. in CHRISTOPHER AND
the
tion of
cerned, careless manner is allthe more wither¬
Cnessina (Macdonald and Evans, 5s. net),
But tire more
ing as a consequence. Gracsler is a physician
which is a sequel to“ The Solitaries of the
to emphasize
at a health resort, a man of fortgeight, of
Sambuca,there is little attempt to re¬
What is murd
modest ambitions and temperate habits. His
peat this harmless mystification; but here
is neither les¬
daily routine is nicely ordered, and he enjoys
again we do not feel that the interest of the
his own sense of professional responsibility.
rigliteousness
book is the interest proper to a work of fiction.
connnittees #
Tet he is disturbed by impulses and made
A plot, indsed, it has, though antique and
feuds bv Arbit
melancholy by enthusiasms ill-suited to his
simple, anid its characters are anything but
prestige f ihe
Fears. His sister’s suieide adds something of
puppets designed to give voice to religions or
and the prof
resentment to his vague and trivial restless¬
moral iceas. They are few, and they may
avenge an ins
ness. Incredible that Friederike,“ a mature
not be portrayed with the complexity and
looked upon as
spinster,“ should suddenly have gone mad.
eagerness for detail that mark the psycholo¬
of the stories in
But her support is withdrawn, and he is com¬
gieal novelis“; but they live, with a touch of
pelled to attend to domestie details. Trreso¬
tions of these k
the rudeness andi innocence of heroes and
sequence of th
lute and lacking in self-confidence, he hardly
heroines in epic or ballad poetry.
smugglers and
dares aspire to marry Sabine, still less, as a
Like these heroes and heroines, moreover,
are indirectly cc
step towards marriage, take over the-sana¬
they are not shown for their own sake, but to
torium. He will not confess that the least
younger genera
illustrate a theme. That theme is the one
of Western cult
prospect of change is irksome and frightening.
that regularly inspires Mr. Carmichael—the
of the Chinese,
When Sabine declares her friendship for him
conviction, mystical rather than religions in
his pride is repelled. After all, he is an eccen¬
piety, the sub
the mere pedestrian sense, that the will of
trie, an egoist, an old fogey. He neither can
their mourning
God and the whole duty of man are perfectly
nor ought accept the happiness she is ready
ccrenionies, allc
plain to those who are ready to fulfil them
to bring him: he is destined to lifelong soli¬
ing of Confuciu:
withont reserves. It is through paltering
best of these:s
with conscientions convietions, though in an
The three storief
Dimly aware that he cannot retrieve his
apparently slight way, that Christopher
figure the impas
blunder, but determined to refute Sabine's
Mavourez and Cressida Vanghan lose the
are easily the b
charge of weakness, he plunges into the affair
fruition of their love and fall into a pit of ruin
in order the ti
with Katharina. His brief spell of exeitement
out of which thev elimb only by the way of
unduly prolonge
convinces him that it is merelg a prelude 1o
long suffering and penance. Atthe root ofthe
planning swift
the happiness he has quigotically discarded.
tale, as readers of the author’s former beoks
cnemies, medital
With a new self-assurance he leaves her for
will not be surprised to find, lies the un¬
strangely mus
the woman“ whose advances he had spurned
compromising dogmatism and severity of
Cantonese, expr
in an unwarrantable fit of self-distrust,“ is
Joseph de Maistre’s philosophy. Its harsh
words of the ms
rejected, and vainly flies back to Katharina.
angles are however, if not softened, at anv
a gentleman is
There is nothing left for him, he tells him¬
rate consolingly irradiated, by Mr. Carmichael’s
is acmirably con
*No one can
self in meaningless phirases.
own tenderness of imagination, which is far
get out of his own skin, man or woman.
reinoved from the spirit of the theologieal
As for me, I was born to be a prig and a
martinet ihom he claims to follow. This
In addition te
Philistine.“ Withont consolation or symnpathy.
tenderness and splendour of fancy are shown
Wife,“ the scene
he secks his old friend Böhlinger. Gracsler
Maidenhead to
especially in the history of the Mavourez
knows by now that Böhlinger is one of the
family, an old Catholie and Cavalier house,
Grant Richards
many lovers his sister Friederike had had.
romance by Arr
filled with heraldie and antiquarian enthu¬
She had given up life because it conld no
siasmns, which has handed down to its last
duction to the l
longer offer her the pleasure she had once
new novel br I
descendant (who is to disgrace it awhile by
enjoyed in abundance. For him there is no
becoming a common swindler) a power of
and a new editi¬
renunciation: there is Fran Sommer, the
second sight opening gorgeous vistas of the
tain Margaret.
plump, pretty. dubious widow who had shown
celestial world like primitive paintings to the
hirn so much kindness in his bereavement.
inner eye. Cressida, the daugliter of an Angli¬
can elergyman, who invents faise vocations for
— LI