"Hutchinson & Ca, (Publishers) Li This far from pleasant story menttes around the fortunes of two anon who do not grow, and conse-{quently do. not change, although wy are poles apart, and a young woman whom they both love, in different "ways, at different, times.
is told by & friend of all thr who has a leg in the war, ar bie enough, but" who by all. the others "as mutively out of the running.
Leon Hast is cultured, suave, possessed of impeccable taste in everything: from pictures and must ito wine "and handkerchiefs, and is 4 perpetual seeker after the perfect, sin everything that interests. He never swerves from these ideals, though it often means the merciless trampling underfoot of those for whom he cares in Ris own peculiar Vernon Seyre is an artist with a apondlar appeal, and he is the same almost grossly" material when we last see him ashen "he "fell in love with Juliet Worbes. In his youth it was not so outstanding because a healthy onithusinsm -tor life in general served blot out "his special sort of 'Hast, living up to his reputation star never doing anything without 'a reason for it, and having a strong contempt for' -what the conven~ Honally~minded consider happiness, vwatehes the. budding "romance of "tie unfinished artist and the young gitl, eoareoly more than a efild in else ahd Knowledge of the world, almost envies them the content he' knows can never be his. While hho is helping Juliet find herself in ithe world of music for which she thas "wellsfoumiied ambitions, he also ahélns ther: to forget her fiance. The Matter takes it dully enough, and) anys she will walt until she Games thack ito him.
"Bast makes Juliet into not only a singer of sare attainments and sian, that slete evoman as wel, thing vexcopt his Bie herie"eruel in hig methods a the voxpects almost the impossible the way" of achievement, 20 Dutietiecldes the time has cone 4 dnactropedys Tite all lover had mot grown "aificently to inhabit the old over had no
Sime phere "with the lowly, ace Eomplahed Juliet, "possessed "3e astes inculcated Jy man. who re-this polishing ipa er merely as an object fo, She realized her mistake, though. there was snathing she could "butt t-She_ went back to the oman she alors te nana. x was: torturing her cruel, was "when he was dying—dying ha lived, only 20 I 'Dhe story is mot purely a ps3 chological study, for all the pro-eminence given to the sadistic aspect of one personality. 'That one is not painted" entirely" black, for Leon' Hast had numerous. qualities that made his tries true'in the finest sense of the word. This feeling of loyalty to something higher than the altairs of life close at hand lifes the book aut of the mit niche otherwise fall ing fossely, one can find' alittle that {5°good and dealt, "the sort othersvoridly faith that men Live by. "The pervading atmosphere. the book, however, is what one would' expect "where to "mach "is Tooted in' dishonour. "Except for the "feeling. of impending" doom, there is little to suggest the story' who "Too early seen unknown, and.
known too late," shen tate et te tte lying this new version is as differ-lent from the youthful love Shakes-mariana a Ske
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