Show Hungarian Authors Advice Is 1It advisable for an old man to i marry No says Maurus Jokal the distinguished distin-guished Hungarian writer since there Is little chance that any happiness will bo vouchsafed to him Tills may be tumid to be the motlo of Jokals new book which bears the novel lllle A Man Advanced in Years Is Nol an Old Man A romance seen In a dream or rather in a series of dreams the author further styles the i book meaning thereby that the I incidents inci-dents which he relates to Us are not taken from real life or from his own personal experience but are rather of the nature of visions or fables nays the New York Herald Four of these visions he describes vividly dropping for the nonce his own personality and assuming assum-ing that of an old man who dreams of matrimonial happiness but whose hopes of bliss are rudely disturbed by the unhappy visions that come to him In his dreams A strange book it may be said for Jokal to write since he too Is an old man and ll is nol so long since he married mar-ried a charming young woman nol half his age The answer Is that Jokal does not consider himself an old man for as the title of his book shows he does not consider that every man who Is advanced In years Is necessarily an old man and furthermore this book Is not about himself but about another old man who would fain know before he dies some of the lost joys of Ills youth In his llrit vision this graybeard sees himself as a celebrated author who Is very much in love with a handsome young widow Though he Is old enough lo be her grandfather he asks her to marry him and sho conbenls Then his troubles begin Ills wife being very wealthy he Is compelled to move In a circle to which ho has not been accustomed accus-tomed To his sludlps which arc so dear lo him he can devote no more lime nil his day being spent hi looking after his wifes properly and in piny lug the role of a hii Jiborn aristocrat before her plutocratic friends This sort of life wearies him intensely and boundless is his Joy when the vision passes away and therewith the intolerable intol-erable burden Is removed The second dream however Is equally unsatisfactory No longer la he a cole hrnlcd writer but an engineer of worldwide world-wide reputation Great works lie undertakes un-dertakes and the greatest of all Is a canal which he decides to build At this point his fortune changes His wonderful won-derful engineering project ends In a financial catastrophe and his wife a brilliant young woman whom he loves passionately iOVCS false to him Under Un-der the tremendous strain his mind gives way and he resolves to fIght a duel with the man who has wrecked his home though the latler hafl been dead for some time Asa result he is locked up Jn a lunatic asylum Great Is the dreamers sorrow at this denouement but equally great is lilsIjoy when this vision also passes away Jokai It may belaid docs nol reveal lo us the name I i of this worldrenowned engineer but I I ll I is claimed lint Uio name will readily I I suggest Itself Lii niy student of contemporary con-temporary history j I In his third vision the old man IK taken ta-ken lo the bank of the River Danube where he has constructed a large house of refuge for those who are shipwrecked ship-wrecked nr who ate otherwise In danger dan-ger of being drowned To Ibis house Is brought one day a fair woman who has been saved from the angry walers and after a brief wooing Ihe old man marries mar-ries her Happiness comes lo him In this new life htmL iLdoe not last long for It chances that a young man whom the lady loved before her marriage Is also rescued from tin water and very soon she and he resume thou old relations rela-tions The result is that her doling old husband is driven half crazy with Jealousy Jeal-ousy But what can he do This In the question which he aslcn himself but before be-fore he can answer Urn fearful vision passes away and to his Joy he dialovens that It was all a dream A greater affliction however await him In the fourth vision He appears lu It as a celebrated painter and amonj the scholars arc two a youth and a maidPii who seem Ho have a most pronounced pro-nounced aversion fpr each olher The youth after a while ceases lo take lessons les-sons and goes away and the master marries the maiden Some years pass and then the youth yow a fullgrown man returns whereupon the atarllliiK discovery Is made that It was not hared ha-red but love which the two young people peo-ple had fell towardfjjach oilier while they wore studying The old painter cannot help recognizing recogniz-ing this fact and though his wife never gives him the slightest cause for Jealousy Jeal-ousy and delermtntK Co be true to her I marriage vows he knows well that she loves another and he conclude that flic beat thin for him to do IK I to die as only thus can the two youuj people bo made perfectly happy He dcclden to sacrifice himself In this munner but before he can car IT out his plan the 1 visionvanlHhcH and he discovers to his I Joy thai It too has been all a dream Of the four visions we are told this I one IH the most true lo life and the 1 affliction portrayed In It Is In many re I apects the hardest which a man can be I taihet upon to bear No clew Is given I to the Identity of the painter but uhir v lio knovi the toryof the late John Uusklns life iragady will S P many polnu of ifsemblami between It and the Imldonm In this vision Jokal docs not claim that these four visions show all thf reasons why old men should not marry but he maintains main-tains that the main reasons me aptly Illustrated In I those visions Had he no desired he could have fashioned four complete novels out of these four vIsions Instead of which he 1ms shaped them into one book Tlu warning note J Dont many imu dominant throughout j It and as murrlago la a subject of pe ronnlul interest both to oici aiul young I there Is little doubt that this Uio latest i work of the famous Hungarian novelim will be ldely read and much crlll I clsed DC It ever borne In mind how I over that his warning asalnsl marriage I Is addressed only to old mento hose who are in the winter of life and yet who cannot be persuaded that for them spring time and summer have Krone forever for-ever In other words a man advanced In years Is not an old man for those who are really old at heart do not think Of gettIng married I |