TWO POINTS OF VIEW

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22391, 11 April 1936, Page 4 (Supplement)

TWO POINTS OF VIEW

YOUTH AT A DISADVANTAGE Martin Armstrong's new novel "Venus Over Lannery" makes interesting reading. Relationships—psychologically speaking—arid the intolerance of youth havo ever been subjects which delighted the author's mind, and in this book he indulges his penchant to tho reader's satisfaction. The stage is set at Lannery, a beautiful old English country homo. Here the reader finds gathered together two distinct groups of guests. One a small circle of elderly people who have shared friendship all their lives, the other a miscellaneous gathering of young people, fortuitously collected, but all attractive and .ill interested in some one to the exclusion of most others. The older people are tho lookers-on, nml watching the restless searching of the young folk they fird subject for thought and discussion. They discover themselves and each other. Old times, youthful problems are remembered and revealed. Age permits personal matters of other days to bo discussed with detachment, and at least 0110 of the circle is able to give helpful advice to the younger set. For meantime the young people havo danced to a tune of their own piping, and all that remains to be done is to be as helpful as possible in tidying up the mess. "Venus Over Lannery," by Martin Armstrong., (Oollanoz.),