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·DR.) GRAESLER,“ by Arthur Schnitzler.
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Dr: Gracsier,“ by Arthur Schnitzler
tion of human experience is evidenced
has for some years been unobtain¬
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able. The Inner Sanctum of Simon
then Schnitzler’s novelettes have given
and Schuster will republish this re¬
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markable character study on April
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Graesler
appears in an edition uni¬
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It is the simplicity of expression that
beguiles,—that, together with his easy
analysis of character, Dr. Graesler is
one of the men of 50 years of age or so
who have served well in their profession
but have come to think that days are
hastening. And he has been denied
amatory happiness. His nature is of
the kind for depths of passion, but the
depths never have been sounded.
The manner in which three young
women, after that, successively enter
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Into his life, the sadness of each in¬
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not so dramatic, perhaps, as some of
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found in Sister Monica's, The Cross in
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early immigrant wagon trains, and founded
there a convent school, which has since
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Dr Graesler,“ by Arthur Schnitz¬
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few years, thei publishers offer this
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It is a character study of a middle-g
aged physician at a European health

resort who, in thie twilight of life,
seeks the love of a young woman. In
his travels he meets two other women,
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his nature. It secms to be a practice
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the unity of his novel.
The cold dominance of Sabine, the
blithe, spirited Katharina, the care¬
less morality of Frau Sommer, the
strange woman that was his sister, all
center on the doctor. The book runs
the space of a year, with the major
action within a brief two months. No
persons or ineidents are wasted; no
words uttered that do not add more to
the clue of Dr. Graesler. Net at the
end, smoking still at his side, you will
know him only a little better as you
would a friend, would still be guessing
at the gaps betwcen his werds and
actions.
GERALD HOLLAND.