Show Love Tragedy Is Theme of by Leslie Reid B By BYDON DON DON HOWARD After absorbing any number of ot the he so-called so modern nov novels ls It 11 Js is isa s sa a a decided relief to turn now now and then hen 0 to such a story as byI slie Reid This story i IS simplicity simplicity sim sim- itself yet nevertheless contains contains con- con ains all an the materials and more that hat go into the manufacture ture of the major portion of present day works by Ameri American an authors The scene is laid In rural England the author a ayoung ayoung ayoung young Englishman Canadian gre- gre re reveals a deep knowledge of the country country coun- coun try and its people There Is nothing in to create any sensation although the heroine Ethleen Jacquith falls Inlove in inlove inove and later love ove with a married man becomes the wife of at a weal wealthy hy m man man n. n who purchases an old castle on the outskirts of the village Liking him immensely but not not being In love with him blip for tor Maurice Mauri e Rivers was was wa much her senior in years she still loved oved John Jonn Millard and Ethleen did not seek spek her husbands husband's company High in a tower of the old castle she he maintained a sanctuary where she he spent her afternoons reading and nd dreaming and doing nothing In particular pa But ore one day Millard sought ought her er out here th the first time he e had done so since her marriage mar to o Rivers and tl they ey were were we're discovered by y her husband A fight ensued in which Rivers was thrown from the tower ower and killed Ethleen succeeded Jn In n spiriting Millard Millaid away to to toa a lonely lori ly Isle near neaz the he shore where meditating on his Jove ove for Ethleen and his his his' crim crime proved too much nuci for him and he into inti the sea i Here are all an the ingredients of the he modern modern sex drama yet there is not ot a particle of sex or s suppressed desire jn Jo the entire book Instead Reid paints a marvelous picture of an n English village that borders onie on the ie sea and of the simple folk that live Ive there The reader needs no Imagination the scudding low-scudding clouds louds that seem to touch the whitecaps on one side and the billowing billowing fallowing fall bil- bil- bil lowing owing grass of ot the swamp lands on the le other on those murky days that hat are familiar along the coast nor or to visualize the sun breaking the mists over over the marshes on n bright summer mornings I I Reid eld too 1 i ia a master of charac charac- L' L and of pf dramatizing the lives of his characters He lie makes th them m live o on every page of the book bool and in the memo memory y of the r reader ader l long ng after the book is p put t back on op the shelf shel E. E r P. r Dutton Co New York Zona Gale Completes New Novel Novel preface J reface to a Life by bt Zona Zora ZonaGale ZonaGale pale Gale Gale Is the history of ot a revelation that that bursts with bewildering glory upon its hero Bernard 1 Mead who exp experiences what is termed sometimes sometimes' sometimes some sometimes some some- times times times' an extension of ot consciousness conscious ness ness' writes Algernon Blackwood In the English Time and Tide The processes of this awakening are areso areso so sp faithfully 1 so o 0 conscientiously y presented th that t they co convince The canvas is a crowded one but every everyone everyone everyone one of the numerous characters Introduced in introduced introduced In- In Is s vitally related to the centra central figure throwing light or shadow upon unon the strange case of ot Bernard Mead One Orie can hear hOar these people bre breathe the for all are drawn with an intimacy a a closeness of observatIon ob ob- ob observation that makes them standout stand standout out oui as solid entities n nor r merely surfaces The theme as will be seen Is a a. d daring one beset with pitfalls that Miss Gale has made madet it t convincing Is is' is isan an a achievement A. A |