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s sufriciertl9CyHIICal, melancholy and
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ubtle to suit anyone, though critics
eem to hold that it reads more like
NEW EDITION OF AN OLD
linical notes than literature. Some
eople like this sort of thing, how¬
MASTER (Dr. Gracsler.—Br
ver. Three distinguished Freud¬
ians (by the wäy, Freud now refers
Arthur Schnitzler).

to his life work as "metapsychology
Thas always been a matter of wonder
rather than "psychoanalysis'') con¬
to me that between Jacob Wasser¬
triute to The Structure and Mean¬

mann and Arthur Schnitzler, the former
ng of Psychoanalysis,“ and the book
fairly bristles with such interesting
should enjoy a greater vogue in this
terms as libido, cathexis, polarities,
country. It can only be explained on
ambivalence, the unconscions, pre¬
the ground that Wassermann’s heavy
onscious and vonscious, dynamisme
bludgeoning and intricate morbidity
others no ###ss difficult to
scem more closely related to the
on short notice. This 1
ent
’classic’ and enduring in literature than g
the last word to date, and represents
ns of the psy¬
onvic
the delicate irony and limpid clarity or
the
warm.
which Schnitzler has always been an
choan
ed for Souckt
re
recept
exponent. Dark, brooding thoughts are
so often confused with eternal truths
Makers of Modern Europe.“
Sforza's
and inner conviction, while emotions
And nine exploits of Jeeves are now
that are quickly brought to the sur¬
price of a dol¬
available for the low
face are dismissed as superficial and
lar and worth it, summer or win¬
evanescent.
Paul de Kruif is out with
ter.
But Wassermann with all his abtruse,
Seven Iron Men,“ told in the same
introspective probing into the souls of
earnest, hero - worshiping fashion,
which somehow fails to attract as it
his variegated rcalm of characters has
Dor¬
did in Microbe Huntern.
not been more penetrating than
othy Parker’s Laments for the Liv¬
Schnitzler in Dr. Graesler,“’ for ex¬
is probably worth 82.50. The
ample. Dr. Graesler“ appeared in Eng¬
little lady is having a tremendous
lish seven years agor But in those days
vogue. There's no end to what
ehe was an esoteric author, to be en¬
we'd like to say, but there is a limit
And so, for
oved bya few thousand fortunates who
Ito available space.
a week, farewell.
had just begunto hear of him, although
three or four of Schnitzler’s things,
particularly some playlets, had already
been published. Despite the fact that
Schnitzler is essentially of the pre-war
period, his name did not circulate to
any extent in the United States until
after ihe war.
But in 1930 Schnitzler’s name has
Treached a radius of 25,000 names, who
may bug or horrow his books. The in¬
Fercase in bis fame is due to a very large
lextent to Simon & Schuster, who have
been consistently attacked as the
panders of the publishing world. But
hatever theg have done that is pureiz¬
Pcommercial is completely atoned for hy
might be an ironic reference to the
the publication of Schnitzler, Franz
Sabine women who had to be forced.
Werfel and Felix Salten.
The sccond was Katharine, a middle¬
In" Dr. Graesler' Schnitzler has a
class working girl, who became his
Etheine whose variations he has woven
mistress because she had a genuine
affection for his gentleness to her. The
Tinto many another of his novelettes.
Dr. Gracsler, for many years a ship’s
surgeon, has retired to become a phys¬
come in contact when her child became
ill with scarlet fever.
ician for summer and winter health
resorts. Living with his old-maid sister
Indecisiveness has been the keyno
for many years, he is suddenly shaken
of Graesler’s life. Always drifting
to his depths when she çommits suicide.
found it difficult to adjust himself
another personality, until in rapid:
That fhertent stirs his moribund sen¬
sibilities. Gradually he begins to ap¬
cession he lost Sabine and Kathar
But finally he realizes that all he
preciate that during his entire life he
has been insulated from the world at
wanted and needed was to break
large and from his own emotions.
insulation, to make contact with
Three women come into his life in human element of his surroundi
rapid succession. The one who con¬
The widow, with her deep respect,
1d
siders him priggish, vain and incem-Ithe child, with her keen joy in che
esiderate, but who is willing to marry
doctor’s stories of his travels, were ad¬
him. The verg name Sabine that jmirably adapted to become his wife and.
Schnitzler has chosen for this girldaughter.