Show Intimate Picture of Past Decade Painted by Author in New Book By BY ATHENE FAR FARNSWORTH Sylvia Thompson th the youthful youthful English writer In her novel The Hounds of Spring has given us usan usan usan an Intimate picture of ot life lUe during the past decade 1914 to 1924 etchIng etchIng etching etch etch- Ing in her backgrounds and and characters characters characters char char- with telling and artistic strokes Like A. A S. S S. S M. M I. I on t tIn In If H Winter Comes Miss Thompson Thomp Thomp- Thomp son has Inject Injected d agleam gleam of hope Inthe Inthe in inthe the choice of her ber line of poetry as hounds of the title When title When the spring are on winters winter's traces The mother another of ot months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of ot leaves and ripple of ofraIn ofrain ofrain rain And time remembered is grief grid forgotten forgotten forgotten for for- gotten And frosts are slain and flowers begotten And In green underwood and cover Blossom by bl blossom the spring begins Chorus from Atlanta Atlan ta ta a and d d. d not only in the type of title chosen Is this remarkable book like its famous predecessor The style too Is graceful with a subtle charm which holds the read read- er LIke Hutchinson Miss Thompson's Thompsons Thompsons Thompson's Thompsons Thompson's Thomp Thomp- sons son's r repression Is admirable her lack of sensationalism is not only In excellent taste but It enables her to depict her drama with even I greater Intensity I Opening her her story with the charming picture re of a cultured English Eng lish f family father a native Austrian Aus Aus- trian but naturalized and knighted In England Englana a beautiful and vivacious vivacious viva- viva cious clous wife Lady Cynthia an ex exquIsite exquisite ex- ex daughter Zina engaged to Cohn a brilliant young Oxford graduate a splendid grown son John JohnS and Wendy an audacious 10 year old year their lives during the en ensuing ensuing ensuing en- en suing ten years of world struggle are depicted in a manner not soon to be forgotten Each lach Is an individual individual ual different and outstanding with characteristics showing possibilities for both strength and weakness and to note the reactions of ot each to tragedy and struggle of wartimes and after after Is Is fascinating and more than ordinarily worth while Miss Thompson shows herself an artist In her ability to etch In words contrasts vivid and striking not so much a contrast of scene and event but one of character and emotion as uninfluenced by circumstances The Hounds of Spring is a war story tru true but not In the ordinary sense It gives the reader intimate human glimpses into the havoc wrought by war not on the battlefields battlefields battle battle- fields or in th that usel useless ss waste of material things but fn the human soul and mind There are more and su phases phase to devastation than the destruction of human bodies and property Little Brown Co Boston |