Show Romantic Tale of South Seas t 4 Wins Plaudits Gordon Young Presses for Admittance Admittance Ad Ad- J to Select Circle 1 t q By HARVEY HANCOCK A per perusal sal of summer fiction leads leads one to wonder if Seibert Selber of that enigmatic German Gennan will be th the rung in the ladder up which Gordon Gordon Gor Gor- don Young must climb cUmb to reach such exalted company as Joseph Conrad John Masefield Herman Melville and Robert Louis Stevenson Steven Steven- 1 son It would be too to place so 80 untried an author l In In I close proximity to the four masters of sea and South sea romances but butone butone butone one cannot discountenance the pos pos- His Seibert whose love of 0 mastery indomitable headed bull ednesS ed- ed ness nes and boastfulness so typical of ot othis his race Is contrasted so sharply with the spineless Paulien who had been expelled from West Vest Point under un out der del a shadow that he stands as one of ot the most remarkably drawn characters of ot the year Mr Ir Young has hu written three other otner books Wild Blood HurrIcane aside asido Williams and Savages from a flight into the realm of adventure In magazines but If he 1 never pe penned med another novel no ho he e I would be remembered mostly by his Seibert of the Island That the tho book Is well written Is unquestioned unquestioned unquestioned that the characters are well drawn Is but under the tho microscopic eye of critics its weak points show Fortunately however th they y do donot not glare and subjugate a perfectly good character study The tale is the story of Seibert but the author has become so 80 en entranced entranced en- en with the romantic trend of ot othis his story that tha ho he has unleashed too many characters of minor Importance importance importance Import import- ance and attempted in each case to solve bach ach ones difficulties It If there is any aside from too close attention to the melodramatic it Is that tat Seibert dominates the story stony Just as he dominates the characters in the book With an Indomitable will to succeed and conquer he re remakes remakes remakes re- re makes the forest lands of ot becomes the most prosperous trader In that dot of ot land In the South seas He was Vas described admirably when daughter of an English English En En- glish convict and later his wife said He was not handsome with his huGe huga fishy body and sunburned redness big white teeth always always' showing in unconvincing che cheerfulness cheerful cheerful- ness but he had a heartiness very verT like Uke contempt for tor all people H He smelled of the fertilizer One is able to derive a picture of ot Seibert physically from that de description description do- do a fact he himself realized when he said I I I Adolph Seibert what i a fool tool to try to graft a little flower bud to a big man like liko me He had been successful had conquered conquered conquered con- con where other men had failed In the forests but in love Oreen lov said expressively Why Yh he Is a afat afat fat tat old man man and and sweats Love Lore I hate him Despite his grossness however howe Seibert was inculcated with that typical Teutonic sincerity and fidelity fidelity fidel fidel- ity to womanhood Once in love once married he would would remain remain true faithful to the end The reader who has been repugnant toward Seibert In the first part of the book suddenly finds himself sympathetic when this huge massive man struck with reverses his wife unfaithful un un um- faithful his forests orests destroyed One Ona views him with pride when he ha stands amid his shattered efforts of ot ofa ofa ota a lifetime and with a quick powerful powerful pow pow- erful swing of ot his fist he smote his chest and rode off ready to begin anew t One wonders why others have hav not discovered such passages as v With h calm destructiveness he drew back a gloved glo fist and smote the mirror Many cracks Instantly converged converged converged con con- verged on the silver slIver surface as It if Ita a small bomb had burst before the tha glass and the image of the explosion explosion explosion sion remained George George H. H Doran publisher New York |