Show 1 1 Diana Patrick's Patricks I II I Shining Palace By RUTH HEWITT Safe upon the tIme solid soUd rock the ugly houses stand Come Conic and see my shining palace built upon the sand Diana Patrick has bus created a de delightful delightful delightful de- de theme in See My Iy Shining Palace but hinders the possibilities ties of a splendid story by the use of lengthy description speckled with fanciful words that become bore- bore some to the reader A comparison of the tho value of f sudden wealth with impoverished aristocracy shows the effect of changed fortune upon modern English marriage Life is is- isa a a. tapestry woven woven In gay colors A lovely lovely cluster cluster of bubbles rose-fired rose and fragile Life a dance a saraband a a. minuet a n. a breathless meetIng meetIng meeting meet- meet Ing and parting and approach and retreat around a a. beribboned beribboned boned pole Life a a. book full of fair pages an Illuminated story Life a river bubbling laughing going goj goI go- go j I In ing gay and grave to the distant sea To love life Ufe always always always-always always to remember remember that that always it must be possible to reb rebuild id ones one's shining palace somehow even though perhaps perhaps per per- haps blips mortals could never ne find a site sito whereon to build save shifting sand ERECTS CASTLE The adolescent erects before his vision a castle castlo In the time air air of of o disillusionment wherein wherein he dwells supreme supreme but but life Is a n picture book of fairy tales tilles which discloses lives In action struggles for a shin shining ng palace Isabel Herrold the beautiful and spoiled child of a t sudden rich co- co builder of enters the exclusive house a residential finishing school for daughters slaughters of gentlemen In the time midst of or a 3 cluster of chattering schoolmates tes she becomes confused over their urgent questions pertainIng pertaining pertaining pertain pertain- ing to her entree into their cloistered cloistered cloistered clois clois- group To her rescue appears de whose sounding high-sounding name always seemed letters patent of or her bh birth th who be becomes becomes becomes be- be comes Isabel's bo boom om friend I forebears had been I well established st ll h In m the J lovely vy Y ts- ts wold country countr when Elizabeth Tudor ruled in Merrie England But now they the de lay ambUshed ambushed ambushed am am- bushed in great pride of past glories at Place Here Isabel meets Nevile and Courcy de and marries marrI s the former the scion of the family The They reside at with the financial assistance of SImon Si Simon Simon SI- SI I I mon Herrold Isabel's s ardent hope I has been to raise herself hersel above e the commonplace Into the beauties of family background and culture WAS NOT DAUNTED S Caste destroys their palace She was not daunted She could build another again again another shining palace though Its foundations might be besand besand sand Jand once more None could be sure sure of their stability since such foundations wore WOle things transient and Imperturbable as human emotions emotions emotions emo emo- and human follies Yet ret she could J build again The materials were all nil there a glittering heap at ather ather ather her feet opalescent on the shining opalescent sands She marries Christopher Arm Arm- don don don- donand and the shining palace in In- In closed as a shell shen a a. pearl peurl that still stillmore stillmore more dazzling lIn vision the vision of ot ofa ota a life that hed held love Jove safe within it love lo e of husband of father and of or ehll child E F. H. H p. p Dutton Co Inc New York I. I y h h |