Show Idealism Reality j Form Torm Contrast Contrast fj In InN Novel ove 1 B By DAVE COLEMAN I London and Portugal are axe the setting for tor the strange tale written by Robert Stuart Christie ChristI which he called The House of ot the Beautiful Hope It Is 18 a a. romance which centers about an artist of ot genius his hi cold calculating and a girl as IlS evanescent as I sunshine sunshIne who dwells In an old garden in a a. bou though rude land There is Ia a British captain of ot Industry in the story and there is a blind man of ot history gifted with a sublimated sight that does nut not depend on eyes eye Th Tb j novel no does doea no nol lack a villain of or worse WonG A Athan than ordinary malice maUce nor ner a whistling tUn 1 who bothers not about toiling toil toU Ing and spinning The House of ot Beautiful Hope Is la Isif arf if unusual work Inasmuch as it gives S side aleS sideby sideby by side aide pictures s of ot a world of or I Ism isam and of ot a II world of ot sordid reality I In lit Inthe I the realm of ot flowers and I Ing hope Pepita waif walt of ot uncertain lin lin- Cage Is the ruler who waits walts for tor love to come In striving London is Blanche j Harding daughter of at a pious shell I the Rev Septimus Harding who marries mar mr- rica ries Michael l Ridley a a. rising painter I with the Idea of ot taking all aU and giving nothing in return She was a tilt flit production of ot refined relined art col cold and calculating as oa a a. machine which gives you a stick slick of ot candy whan Insert a penny and pull the ba handle s 1 J The complication of ot the contest e both for tor Michaels Michael's heart beart forms orm th d basis for tor a story which offers It m f 4 and storm contentment and amid str t v s Woven Into the romance are beautiful I creeds of at existence and too a philosophic ph acceptance of ot motives and deeds that are grasping and vile tile An attractively effective symbolism pervades the book and it 11 is masked by employed ed elements of ot interest and suspense It allows the reader to piece out Identities and relationships relationshiP Alluring In style convincing in treat treatment ment meat illuminated by a quiet Dicken humor Tho House of the tho Beautiful Hope is destined to rank high The love idyll of ot Pepita and I I Raphael is magnificent with unsurpassed I passed depth of ot feeling The book has baa attracted much favorable comment in I England it Is a a. first novel no and anti aa as I such the moro more re mark Thomas I Seltzer N y |