Show ADAI A DAM AND D EVE by John Erskine 4 Cobbs Merrill If publishers Et like God has hIlS created Adam Adamand Adamand and Eve In iii his own Image There being no clay handy Professor Ers Ers- Erskine kine kiese has found a little wisdom and wit It and sophIstication lying about his workshop and fashioned them out of these It Is surprising to find how lifelike people thea fashioned can be As the Shakespeareans do their Hamlet In modem dress Dr Ers Ers- Erskine kine d does s his ancient tales bles In mod mod- I n em conversation First there was helen of Troy and then there was and now there Is Adam Adamand Adamand and Eve He has interested himself only In- In incidentally lly In the Eden story being more Intent on taking Adam Lilith and Eve and making them the sym sym- bets for all the triangles throughout Ume In fact It to us the book was misnamed I If Galahad could be sub Enough of His Life LICe to Account for Ills His Reputation then Adam and Eve Eye should have been sub titled E Enough ough of oC Their Lives to Account for Our Vindication Vindication tion In the opening we e find that the animate animalS had mates but butman butman man had a soul That wasn't enough Adam wanted a mate male lIe took It up with the Creator You meAn you want a mate like a mere animal Adam Is asked It doesn't sound eleva elevated d but I Ican Ican can think of nothing better Adam admits Shortly afterward he comes across Lilith Lilith Is v very ry modern She Is practical straightforward frank entrancIng and clear Before her superior female wIsdom Adam b be- be becomes comes little more than a the boob sort that most men have be n ever since Eve arrives amusingly enough just justIn In time to faint That's too much for Adam lie He has to see her home Ese E Is just per cent female clinging ln sine After Adams Adam's meeting with her herthe herthe the sane S. and LIlIth hasn't a chance So familiar has the Erskine formula for such books as this become that one can can almost paraphrase his con con- Where you ou can imagine Eve ask ask- askIng log Ing Dr did you ou get this Oh answers the sheh that apocryphal dame I met for a moment In Altogether we find the Erskine I manner becoming a bit monotonous Adam and Etc E talk strangely like Helen and Guinevere and others Hes He's amusing In small doses v. no But he heIs heis Is likely to ce be a civilizing influence |