THE BOOKMAN

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 32, 6 August 1921, Page 15

THE BOOKMAN

"The Glorious Hope." By Jane Burr. London : Duckworth and Co.

"Evelyn Kerwin waved goodi-bye to 'the' crowd' at the little railway station, and shook herself like a cat after a nap under the parlour stove." Leaving the little home town in Wisconsin with, one thousand dollars, she ,goes to New York in search of adventure and literary success. She finds the former right away. She falls in with a coterio whose ambitions are Bohemian. They are certainly lively and exceedingly free. Inf fact, Jane Burr, has provided in this novel some excellent material for a three-reel picture. There is any amount of cinema slang used in the conversation of the coterie, which drinks freely. One of them says to Evelyn : "You poor simp, you're having an aitch of a time here to-night, because you won't drink. You've got to drink at a place like this to keep you from going crazy." Evelyn meets "Spinach" amongst this bunch "of I Bohemians. He is 4, professed Socialist, and does not work; a clever man when he is at work, but he would rather dream of remodelling society a.ny day. He introduces Evelyn to a fellow Socialist, a clever cartoonist, but also lazy. Evelyn proposes to him, he accepts, they marry. He needed "feeding up," and he thought so, too. Their troth was plighted by the exchange' of the wordis: "Yours for the revolution."" -A Justice of the Peace married them. ; They lived happily while the thousand dollars lasfcedi then the jewellery was aold for' food Lower and: lower the couple sank, the cartoonist growing more socialistic and more lazy as time went on. Then came a separation. Many things happen which it would not be fair to either readier or author to disclose. "The Glorious Hope" Ls a clever book, and firmly grips the interest of the reader from the outset. Ifc is, above all, intensely human, and highly probabl*