Badearzt
raesler
29. Dok
S e Ae e u e eenee e 1
Ue
Express
Portland,
MA
0330
Schnitzler Reprint
GRNESLER.
rthur
DR.
-r-Annon-mm. Schuster.
New Vork. 31.50
Tines
Critics since Schnitzler's novelette,
BuffaloNY
Dr. Gracsier“ was first published a
half dozen years or so ago have beeit
virtually unanimous in praising the
story as a characher study and as a
work of prose.
APR 27 1930
The picture of the middle-agel phy¬
sician that is painted by the Vien¬
nese master of the shört novel form 1
one that lovers of literature are not
likely scon to forget, for the creation
Popular Reprints
merges beauty and melancholy, irony
Populär-priced reprints of three
and caprice into a whole that is no¬
table and distinct.
good books appear this weck to be
Dr. Graesier, aproaching his later
welcomed by all bent on building
vears, finds himself experiencing a re¬
a library with a limited budget.
birth of his ability to feel love and to
Simon and Schuster offer Arthur
want lovc. Against this is the pholoso¬
Schnitzlers Dr. Graesler“ in a
phy he has learned from life, that he
is to expect little from living. But hei
small volume at 81.50. This engag¬
secks the new ideal and his search
ing tale of a middle-aged man's
leads him to threc women. The story
belated excursions into romance
of his relations with them is the
was first published in America in
theme of the novel.
1923, but has been out of print for
Simon and Schuster have reissued
several vears. The present edition
the volume in atteestive volume. They
announce that tuey nope to ## print all
is translated from the German by
the works of Schnitzler f. American
E. C. Slade.
readers and in a aniform edition.
James Huneker's +Painted Vells.“
D. W. P.-
Fnovel of the seven deadly arts“ and
critics thereof, and a volume con¬
taining seven plays by Anton Tche¬
kov are latest additions to the Mod¬
ern Library’s 95 cent series.
Surely Tchekov understood
people—just ordinary people—as no
one eise in modern literature.“
writes Eva Le Gallienne'in a pre. 2e
to the new edition of the great
Russian playwright’s work—K. S.
Journa!
Minneapolis Minn
MAV A -1930
1Dr. Graesler''
Published here originally in 1923, Dr. Graesler“
has for some years been unobtainable. Meanwhile Ar¬
thur Schnitzler’s following has grown. Dr. Graesler,“
the story of a middleaged physician at a health resort
who. as he approaches the autumn of his life, experi
ences a spring-like renaissance of the amatory emo¬
tions, 's now republished. The physician cannot lay
aside the bitter misdom that leads him to expect little
from life and less from passion. His search and bis
disenchantment make the volume engrossing.—Arthur
Schnitzler—Simon & Schuster.
box 4/9
N Y Vorld
May 18-30
—rmu
Schnitzler’s Comedy of Love
— By Gertrude Diamant —.
DR. GRAESLER, by Arthur Sehnitz-And the #ext year was, indeed, a
zerles of harassing temptations and
ler translated from the German
escapes for the poor doctor, who,
ByE. C. Slade: Simon & Schus¬
thought himself, in each case, pas¬
ter. 81.50.
zionately comnmitted—only to find
* CHNTTZLER’S story 1s a comedy
that he had really not been involved
at all. First there was Sabine, a
I of the emotions. In tracing the
clear-headed young nurse, who saw
love affalrs of the middle-aged
that his proposal needed coaxing, and
Dr. Graesler, the hopes and heart¬
wrote hinn an indiscreet letter sug¬
gesting a professional alllance, with
burn and bitterness that attended
love if possible. Though Graes’er's
them, he has contrived a small mas¬
attentions to Sabine had been largely
terpiece of irony; for he shows that
boredom and loneliness, he was piqued
the emotions of love tend to carry
at the lady's cold-blooded attitude,
within them their own irony of self¬
and deciding that he had loved her
deception. And this he does quite
far too well he went to the city to
Innocently and ineidentally. That 18
over—an interlude 5f
think
what makes him the good fronist.
meditation that was pleasantly
Any display of indignation over the
lightened by the company of little
varying insincerlties and self-decep¬
Katherina.
tions of the doctor would have been
But came the eime to return to
fatal to the ironic effect, for the logle
Sabine, and Katharina was sent home
of it runs something like this: irony
Sabine, however, greeted him with
can only refer to things that are, be¬
frigid politeness, and not a word of
cause it is the most serlous term of
her letter—thus completely en¬
description, and it cannot be applied
lightening the doctor as to the real
to the temporary or unreal; now one
state of his feeling toward her. Back
cannot pass judgment on things that
to Katharina then, his true love, his
are, and indignation is a form of
only love, to find her dying of scarlet
Therefore the
passing judgment.
fever. Dr. Graesler followed her body
writer who is indignant is never an
to the grave in an ecstasy of love
ironist.
and grief, exquisitely complicated by
I would say, rather, that Schnitzler
a sense of gullt; for Katharina had
manipulates the changing moods öf
caught the fever from a patient of
Dr. Graesler with dellght—no, de¬
his, a little girl who lived in his
light is not the word. either; for that
house with her widowed mother,
too lmplies judgment of a kind. Let us
These two he spent several days in
say that Schnitzler is the good iron¬
shunning as unclean, as the horrible
ist because his role in the story seems
murderers of his beloved, until grief
passive, and the frony is a by-product
drove him to the plump widow for
vof the telling, a result of the inne#
consolation, and with the widow and
comedy of those emotions, which he
her child he did return to Lanzarote,
describes as if he, too, were innocent
and the prophetic hotelier was happy.
of their cumulative effect.
One couid very well dislike Dr.
Graesler, and yet one doesn't. It 1s
R. GRAESLER, who enjoyed a
because this superficiallty of the emo¬
1 medest practice in the seaside
tions is too universal to form che
basis of our likes and dislikes. Every
resort of Lanzarote. awoke one
self-consclous person is aware of it.
mörning to find that his sister—the
The clever ones take refuge from the
good, qulet Friederike, had hung her¬
fear of their own superficiallty in
self from the window-frame. The
wit; and those who cannot be witty
suleide interrupted tne peaceful
become sentimentalists. But Dr
domestic w#ars which had brought
Cnesler is neither witty nor senti¬
him to middle age, and gave occa¬
mental. He is merely helpless and
sion for the local hotelier to remark
nalvely self-docelved. And so he 1s,
that next season the doctor must re¬
to me, one of the most genuine and
turn with a pretty young wife on
moving creations that Schritzler has
his arn.—a suggestion that the doctor
heard with smoldering annoyance. given us.
raesler
29. Dok
S e Ae e u e eenee e 1
Ue
Express
Portland,
MA
0330
Schnitzler Reprint
GRNESLER.
rthur
DR.
-r-Annon-mm. Schuster.
New Vork. 31.50
Tines
Critics since Schnitzler's novelette,
BuffaloNY
Dr. Gracsier“ was first published a
half dozen years or so ago have beeit
virtually unanimous in praising the
story as a characher study and as a
work of prose.
APR 27 1930
The picture of the middle-agel phy¬
sician that is painted by the Vien¬
nese master of the shört novel form 1
one that lovers of literature are not
likely scon to forget, for the creation
Popular Reprints
merges beauty and melancholy, irony
Populär-priced reprints of three
and caprice into a whole that is no¬
table and distinct.
good books appear this weck to be
Dr. Graesier, aproaching his later
welcomed by all bent on building
vears, finds himself experiencing a re¬
a library with a limited budget.
birth of his ability to feel love and to
Simon and Schuster offer Arthur
want lovc. Against this is the pholoso¬
Schnitzlers Dr. Graesler“ in a
phy he has learned from life, that he
is to expect little from living. But hei
small volume at 81.50. This engag¬
secks the new ideal and his search
ing tale of a middle-aged man's
leads him to threc women. The story
belated excursions into romance
of his relations with them is the
was first published in America in
theme of the novel.
1923, but has been out of print for
Simon and Schuster have reissued
several vears. The present edition
the volume in atteestive volume. They
announce that tuey nope to ## print all
is translated from the German by
the works of Schnitzler f. American
E. C. Slade.
readers and in a aniform edition.
James Huneker's +Painted Vells.“
D. W. P.-
Fnovel of the seven deadly arts“ and
critics thereof, and a volume con¬
taining seven plays by Anton Tche¬
kov are latest additions to the Mod¬
ern Library’s 95 cent series.
Surely Tchekov understood
people—just ordinary people—as no
one eise in modern literature.“
writes Eva Le Gallienne'in a pre. 2e
to the new edition of the great
Russian playwright’s work—K. S.
Journa!
Minneapolis Minn
MAV A -1930
1Dr. Graesler''
Published here originally in 1923, Dr. Graesler“
has for some years been unobtainable. Meanwhile Ar¬
thur Schnitzler’s following has grown. Dr. Graesler,“
the story of a middleaged physician at a health resort
who. as he approaches the autumn of his life, experi
ences a spring-like renaissance of the amatory emo¬
tions, 's now republished. The physician cannot lay
aside the bitter misdom that leads him to expect little
from life and less from passion. His search and bis
disenchantment make the volume engrossing.—Arthur
Schnitzler—Simon & Schuster.
box 4/9
N Y Vorld
May 18-30
—rmu
Schnitzler’s Comedy of Love
— By Gertrude Diamant —.
DR. GRAESLER, by Arthur Sehnitz-And the #ext year was, indeed, a
zerles of harassing temptations and
ler translated from the German
escapes for the poor doctor, who,
ByE. C. Slade: Simon & Schus¬
thought himself, in each case, pas¬
ter. 81.50.
zionately comnmitted—only to find
* CHNTTZLER’S story 1s a comedy
that he had really not been involved
at all. First there was Sabine, a
I of the emotions. In tracing the
clear-headed young nurse, who saw
love affalrs of the middle-aged
that his proposal needed coaxing, and
Dr. Graesler, the hopes and heart¬
wrote hinn an indiscreet letter sug¬
gesting a professional alllance, with
burn and bitterness that attended
love if possible. Though Graes’er's
them, he has contrived a small mas¬
attentions to Sabine had been largely
terpiece of irony; for he shows that
boredom and loneliness, he was piqued
the emotions of love tend to carry
at the lady's cold-blooded attitude,
within them their own irony of self¬
and deciding that he had loved her
deception. And this he does quite
far too well he went to the city to
Innocently and ineidentally. That 18
over—an interlude 5f
think
what makes him the good fronist.
meditation that was pleasantly
Any display of indignation over the
lightened by the company of little
varying insincerlties and self-decep¬
Katherina.
tions of the doctor would have been
But came the eime to return to
fatal to the ironic effect, for the logle
Sabine, and Katharina was sent home
of it runs something like this: irony
Sabine, however, greeted him with
can only refer to things that are, be¬
frigid politeness, and not a word of
cause it is the most serlous term of
her letter—thus completely en¬
description, and it cannot be applied
lightening the doctor as to the real
to the temporary or unreal; now one
state of his feeling toward her. Back
cannot pass judgment on things that
to Katharina then, his true love, his
are, and indignation is a form of
only love, to find her dying of scarlet
Therefore the
passing judgment.
fever. Dr. Graesler followed her body
writer who is indignant is never an
to the grave in an ecstasy of love
ironist.
and grief, exquisitely complicated by
I would say, rather, that Schnitzler
a sense of gullt; for Katharina had
manipulates the changing moods öf
caught the fever from a patient of
Dr. Graesler with dellght—no, de¬
his, a little girl who lived in his
light is not the word. either; for that
house with her widowed mother,
too lmplies judgment of a kind. Let us
These two he spent several days in
say that Schnitzler is the good iron¬
shunning as unclean, as the horrible
ist because his role in the story seems
murderers of his beloved, until grief
passive, and the frony is a by-product
drove him to the plump widow for
vof the telling, a result of the inne#
consolation, and with the widow and
comedy of those emotions, which he
her child he did return to Lanzarote,
describes as if he, too, were innocent
and the prophetic hotelier was happy.
of their cumulative effect.
One couid very well dislike Dr.
Graesler, and yet one doesn't. It 1s
R. GRAESLER, who enjoyed a
because this superficiallty of the emo¬
1 medest practice in the seaside
tions is too universal to form che
basis of our likes and dislikes. Every
resort of Lanzarote. awoke one
self-consclous person is aware of it.
mörning to find that his sister—the
The clever ones take refuge from the
good, qulet Friederike, had hung her¬
fear of their own superficiallty in
self from the window-frame. The
wit; and those who cannot be witty
suleide interrupted tne peaceful
become sentimentalists. But Dr
domestic w#ars which had brought
Cnesler is neither witty nor senti¬
him to middle age, and gave occa¬
mental. He is merely helpless and
sion for the local hotelier to remark
nalvely self-docelved. And so he 1s,
that next season the doctor must re¬
to me, one of the most genuine and
turn with a pretty young wife on
moving creations that Schritzler has
his arn.—a suggestion that the doctor
heard with smoldering annoyance. given us.