Show Modern Modem Writer Satirizes on Mother Love Lov German Author Makes His Bow With a Sophisticated Novel By Ted Long Miss 1 L. L B. B Campbell Is a a. pro professor 05 sor SOL of English literature at the University of California a but her first novel These Are My Jewels Is not the sort of book one would expect a lady professor to turn out It Is satire stinging satire and and it Indicts tries and convicts the mother moth moth- er or Inflicting her children with an overdose of mother love These Are Ale My J Jewels ewes tell tells of the Masterson family of rs ville yule Wis Vis but principally of Mrs Masterton who was ever in the vanguard of mod modernism even as far back as the year jear of her marriage 1888 With her modernism was wa mixed a a. great deal of ot sentimental sentimental- It ity Mrs Masterson Masterson- loved her children she slie she became the mother of fomand four four four- and she felt it her let duty to prepare I them for forli life by telling th m what are me delicately referred to as the facts of life And she impressed up upon them them what to her was more Important that important that every child be belonged belonged belonged be- be longed to its mother and that they must love her more than anyone else an in inthe the world Thus Mrs Irs Masterson Mas Mas- terson prepared d her children for life gu guiding ding them through school and childhood and anti guarding them from the he dangers of the world MAKES DISCOVERY Suddenly she discovered that her children had grown up and really entered life Harry Harr her second son got In trouble with a girl and married her without asking 1 his liis s mother Mrs Masterson was quite sure that the girl was not his sort and tried to win vin him back from his wife making him very unhappy because she was his mother and him The other children also had grown up The war claimed Jim the first son but not before he too had married without telling his mother This as much as Jims Jim's death made Mrs Masterson very very sad and she she- always i ed to recognize Jims Jim's widow The elder daughter was somewhat of ofa a comfort how how- however however ever for she married and lived with her mother and father and was very unhappy when her husband husband hus bus band left her after alter quarreling with his mother in The younger daughter did nothing that was wag wa expected expected ex ex- of her She went to Vassar and became a war worker but she never seemed to agree with Mrs 1 Masterson I that a mothers mother's love is the most important thing in the world Instead she lived her own life and was happy MOTHER LOVE SHOWN Mrs 1 Masterson's children were her jewels They rhey were very precious to toller her and she took great car care carein in preparing them for life But after th they y were ready for life lIfo she protected protected protected pro pro- them from it ft because as ashe she he would have said A mothers mother's love is the greatest thing in the world According to the blurb on the cover Miss Campbell wrote These Are My Jewels to please herself There i Is no doubt but that she did and at a white heat heat too for the novel appears appealS to have been turned out after ater she had thought for a a. along along long time with Increasing anger of mother love In wholesale quan quan- These Are My Jewels is excellent excellent excel excel- lent Tent satire It is not very subtle the author uses a a. horsewhip Instead in instead instead In- In stead of a a. rapier but each lash of the tue whip cuts and stings The novel Is admirably l planned and finely executed It Is a short book only book only pages pages which which Is also a a. W. W W W. Norton Co Inc New York Tork Diana by Heinrich Mann l Is a astory astory astory story of the ideal of freedom and the Duchess VIolante of Assy ItIs It ItIs Itis Is a t readable novel and is the of of ofa ofa- a trilogy to be translated translate from the German Violante de Assy spent a a. lonel lonely childhood In the Castle Assy where she had as as s companions the portraits portraits portraits por por- traits of long dead ancestors Occasionally Occasionally Occasionally Oc Oc- Oc- Oc her father visited her each time with a new maman Then one day she learned of his death deathS and her uncle the Duke of Assy came to live e in the castle Th They y be became ame good friends and when the duke left she went with him as his wife The Duke Dulie of Assy was an old gentleman and his young bride blide was sometimes bored But they traveled about Europe and had a pleasant time The duchess was very beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- and many young men would have made themselves her lovers but her played off one against the other Then the duke died and she returned to Castle Assy I A dyn dynasty ty ruled Dalma- Dalma I A lawyer opposed it Inthe Inthe in inthe the interest of nationalism More nationalism More More- nationalism The duchess met Pavie and because he was young oung and earnest became Interested interested interested inter inter- ested in the revolutionary move move- ment The revolt failed but not be before before be- be fore fote pavle had made her his lila mistress mistress mis mis- tress and the conspirators fled across the Adriatic to Italy BECAME DISPIRITED There the exiles did not prosper and because the duchess did not yield to him again became dispirited He moped and the re revolt revolt revolt re- re volt dragged Then the duchess se secured secured secured se- se cured money enlisted the aid of the monks seemed on the way to o success until murder of an editor by some of the The re revolt revolt re- re volt was was- suppressed and dynasty believing the duchess now harmless restored her lands to her Diana Is a a. very sophisticated novel novel not not of the tue sophomoric so sophistication sophistication sophistication so- so which prates of Freud and uses French phrases but of a deeper more complete kind It isa is isa a book written for highly civilized people It probably will not be very popular and will thoroughly please hardly aJl anyone one But It is witty and readable and can be recommended even when the reviewer is not terribly terribly terribly ter ter- ter- ter enthusiastic The translation from the German was sas made mado by Erich and Emmet Glore McCann Coward-McCann Inc Ine New York |