Show Whimsical Tale Delights Reader With Vivid Style StyleA i iA A Daughter of Pan by Carnelia Cornelia Cornelia Cor Car nelia Stratton Parker Realistic Realistic Real Real- Depiction of Life By EDITH M. M HINES Rebellion against the stodginess of ot life b by a father and Iris is daughter is the theme of A Daughter of Pan a tender whimsical and rather unusual story of ot American life Exceedingly de delightful tie tie- are the first few chapters which no doubt may ma recall to al almost almost almost al- al most any parents their own feelIng feelIng feeling feel- feel Ing perhaps never before breathed even to themselves of horror upon i gazing upon their first born I Perry Lane is most unlike the I average man He is a dreamer an ou outdoor man misunderstood by his practical wife and from tire moment moment moment mo mo- ment he became the father of a daughter and not the He boy he had dreamed of counted on planned for fol his sole desire was to make this newborn infant as like the Tad rad of his dreams as possible possible and and his wife named her Dulcinea Dulcinea was never called by her given name except by her mother and later by her husband For 20 years she was tire Tad of her fathers father's life father life father and daughter were pals until pals until se suddenly realized realized realized real real- that she was a woman and wanted a mate and ution this ImpUlse impulse impulse im Im- im- im pulse she selected a at random as asIt asIt asit It were the first man mal who came along and in the of ot Robert nobert Osgood the exact opposite of her father This man she chose chose chose-a a stodgy Babbit with a mother who meant far more to him than his wife wife and and when in turn Tad as asher asher asher her father before her has a daughter daugh daugh- ter when she wanted a son the mother-in-law mother manages her as well as the household eliminating Tad in every ever way in her own Ironic Iome The book seems a bit lacking lacking- in inconsistency inconsistency consistency but if ones one's life were so vastly changed by the adventure from girlhood to matrimony and from wifehood to motherhood as was Tads life itself would lack consistency To a fundamentalist as regards the holy bonds of matrimony matrimony matrimony mat mat- the rebellion of Tad may be a bit breathtaking her flight to New York without thought of her child and all of her h-er rather unconventional unconventional unconventional experiences would seem seema a discordant note out of harmony with her wholesome simple early earlys s oo with Perry Perr her father The IThe vast amount of material and the He ra rapid ld transition of thought and action ac ac- ac- ac tion m may account for the fact that In the whole story Perry and amid Tad are really the only outstanding characters and one remembers only vaguely smug Robert Osgood and his self Out of numerous mixed and turbulent turbulent turbulent tur tur- bulent adventures Tad seeking a substitute for happiness takes Perry away for Iris great adventure because because because be be- cause he could not stand the thought of ending his days like a mangy dog slinking about a back yard snapping at flies files for excitement excItement- and arid missing them It Is a trifle melodramatic but rather the most satisfying part of the book is that Tad should have Perry who understood understood understood un un- un- un her Perry her father who worshiped he hep heU blindly all to herself herself herself her her- self at tire th-e last and that she should sho find the panacea for her troubled existence in another of whom Perry Perr would approve Page DoubledaY Page Doubleday Co |