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Kirhmond Gimes-Bispatch
RICHMOND. VIRGINIA
The following clipping is from our issue of
—
W
and is Vorwarded for your information.
NOTED ADVENTURER
OF 18TH CENTURY
CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING. By
Arthur Schnitzler. Thomas Seitzer,
New Fork.
Casanova de Seingalt (Giovanni
Jacopo), the talented and infamous
adventuler of Europe in the eigh¬
teenth century, is known chiefly
through bis Memoires, which disclose
a varied career. A 16, expelled from
school for scandalous conduct (Encye.
Britt), bis subsequent vagarles are
not out #f keeping. His autobiog¬
rar I, presents, ## is sald, a trust¬
worthy account of the morals and
manners of his time.
He was successivelr Journalist,
preachen, abbe, Idiplomatist, police
spy and continestal wanderer. Im¬
prisoned in Veniße, as a spy. in 1755.
he made a gennadonal escape the fol¬
lowing Pehr, cured Europe, met
many famos me including the roy¬
alty, Feturncl toWVenice in 1774, again
beinz, forcec td go into exile, and
eiezing Firal Ne pieturesqus career
In 1798.
Theurrent volume, which is wholly
fiction, will be interesting to those
readers who have some scquaintance
with the celebrated Memoires, since it
is couched in the same styl, presents
many apparently accurate pietures of
Casanova’s curlous mental processes,
and proceeds in its narrative with
sensational rapidity and with no per¬
ceptible lack of detall. Of its type,
the book is singularly interesting,
and constitutes an excellent piece of
fiction for—again we say—readers
who are familiar with Casanova's
own story.
J. H. G.
box 4/10
HENRY
ROMEIKE, Inc.
(ORIGINAL)
106-110 SEVENTH AVE.
NEW YORK
ESTABLISHEO 1551
1407 5i3
Fron
EXPRESS.
Los Angeles, Cal.
TWO NOTABLE TRANSLATIONS
Casanova's Homecoming, Schnitzler's Brilliant, Morda¬
cious Picture of the Fenetian Politician and Libertine.
Wies in Interest Wüth“ Phantom, Hauptmann':
Fictional Study of Abnormality
BY LILLIAN C. FORD
GASANOVA'sS HoMECOMM-Ry Archur
past, which he could not qufte
Schnitzler. Pran#
D E. Fgt hund
regret because without the cut##¬
Uedar Paul. Phomas Seitzec
clysm that had broken up his old
Tork.
life he never wonld have really
FHANIOM. By Verfart Hauptmanr.
Ilved.
Translated by Bayard Qulney Morga#
B. W. Huebsch. New Fork.
The story is told by the olerk
himsell, who hopes in writing it
This remarkable novel by Ar¬
to free himself from the spell of
thur Schnitzler, Casanova's Home¬
hia recollections through this sort
coming,“ has been brougnt out by
of full and free confessional.
Thomas Seltzer in a new format.
Hauptmann succeeds in pro¬
Adeing to perfection the effect of
In it Schnitzler has reconstructed
the tale'n being told by a simple.
the scholar, politcian, intriguer
unlearned man, without art or
and roue that was Casanova and
#terary skill. Its interest as a
study of abnormality, of a tem¬
has laid him bare before us, a
prary madness, followed by a slow
quivering piece of humanity, as
rMemption, is only secondary to
real as he is repulsive.
tat as a human drama, told with
sy'mpathy, understanding, toler¬
It is not biography but flotion
unce.
that Schnitzler has written, barthe
Where Schnitzler takes a grim
fact that there is an authentie
matisfaction in his üibertino hero's
quality in the portrait'and that che
villainy and his defeat, and views
bachground oi Europe in the eish¬
Fim coldly, appraisingly, sar¬
teench century is so pertectly pre¬
Cionically, Hauptmann has a feeling
sented gives special signincance
repugnance for Luboka’s sins,
to the book.
rnittgated only by his sympathy for
It is Casanova at a later period
sche sinner. Schnitzler'’s novel is
of his liie than that covered by
the more brilliant, more compel¬
his memoirs thät we have here.
ling but he sees not so deeply and
A battered and deleated mian,
notgso universally and his 18
hunted athwart the world by tnat
the Maser genius
last estort of the spirit to fumn
itself wh.le the pulse is still strong,
the zest for life sull impelling, is
given us. But Casanova, though
prematurely worn by his passion¬
ate, mad existence, is still more
alive, more ardent, more danger¬
ous than most.
He is obsessed by one desire, to
return to his native Venice, from
Which he had been Fears in egile.
While awalting sthe result of his
repeated supplications for a par¬
don, at last made certain by his
promises to serve basely his old
enemies, he enters upon one more
amorous intrigue. Schnitzler, in
accordance with his cyniczl inter¬
pretation of life. makes the wom¬
an whom Casanova so longs for
a distinguished scholar. Sho is a
Romola-like creature, aloof, self¬
contained, seemingir the embodi¬
ment of all the virtues. Casanova
discovers that she has a lover and
Ey getting the latter into his power
he secures entrance into her cham¬
ber at dead of night.
He deindes himself with the
thoughi that his own charms are
25
still so great that Marcolina will
—
-
be glad to unite herself with him
and to go with him to Venice. H.s
disillusionment came when he read
Arthur Schnitzler
inthe outraged young woman’s
Cananova's Homecoming.“
countenance, not #thief, libertine.
Schnitzler’s latest novel is re¬
villain,“ but something
Zwhich
riewed in today's Time
erushed him to. earth more ig¬
nominlously than could any terms
of abuse; he read the word which
to him was ithe most dreadful el
all words, since it passed a final
Judgment on him—old man.“
The book is one of high genius,
brilliantly written, but in a vein
that congeals the blood by its cold¬
ness. ito sardonic view of life, its
an
4
Kirhmond Gimes-Bispatch
RICHMOND. VIRGINIA
The following clipping is from our issue of
—
W
and is Vorwarded for your information.
NOTED ADVENTURER
OF 18TH CENTURY
CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING. By
Arthur Schnitzler. Thomas Seitzer,
New Fork.
Casanova de Seingalt (Giovanni
Jacopo), the talented and infamous
adventuler of Europe in the eigh¬
teenth century, is known chiefly
through bis Memoires, which disclose
a varied career. A 16, expelled from
school for scandalous conduct (Encye.
Britt), bis subsequent vagarles are
not out #f keeping. His autobiog¬
rar I, presents, ## is sald, a trust¬
worthy account of the morals and
manners of his time.
He was successivelr Journalist,
preachen, abbe, Idiplomatist, police
spy and continestal wanderer. Im¬
prisoned in Veniße, as a spy. in 1755.
he made a gennadonal escape the fol¬
lowing Pehr, cured Europe, met
many famos me including the roy¬
alty, Feturncl toWVenice in 1774, again
beinz, forcec td go into exile, and
eiezing Firal Ne pieturesqus career
In 1798.
Theurrent volume, which is wholly
fiction, will be interesting to those
readers who have some scquaintance
with the celebrated Memoires, since it
is couched in the same styl, presents
many apparently accurate pietures of
Casanova’s curlous mental processes,
and proceeds in its narrative with
sensational rapidity and with no per¬
ceptible lack of detall. Of its type,
the book is singularly interesting,
and constitutes an excellent piece of
fiction for—again we say—readers
who are familiar with Casanova's
own story.
J. H. G.
box 4/10
HENRY
ROMEIKE, Inc.
(ORIGINAL)
106-110 SEVENTH AVE.
NEW YORK
ESTABLISHEO 1551
1407 5i3
Fron
EXPRESS.
Los Angeles, Cal.
TWO NOTABLE TRANSLATIONS
Casanova's Homecoming, Schnitzler's Brilliant, Morda¬
cious Picture of the Fenetian Politician and Libertine.
Wies in Interest Wüth“ Phantom, Hauptmann':
Fictional Study of Abnormality
BY LILLIAN C. FORD
GASANOVA'sS HoMECOMM-Ry Archur
past, which he could not qufte
Schnitzler. Pran#
D E. Fgt hund
regret because without the cut##¬
Uedar Paul. Phomas Seitzec
clysm that had broken up his old
Tork.
life he never wonld have really
FHANIOM. By Verfart Hauptmanr.
Ilved.
Translated by Bayard Qulney Morga#
B. W. Huebsch. New Fork.
The story is told by the olerk
himsell, who hopes in writing it
This remarkable novel by Ar¬
to free himself from the spell of
thur Schnitzler, Casanova's Home¬
hia recollections through this sort
coming,“ has been brougnt out by
of full and free confessional.
Thomas Seltzer in a new format.
Hauptmann succeeds in pro¬
Adeing to perfection the effect of
In it Schnitzler has reconstructed
the tale'n being told by a simple.
the scholar, politcian, intriguer
unlearned man, without art or
and roue that was Casanova and
#terary skill. Its interest as a
study of abnormality, of a tem¬
has laid him bare before us, a
prary madness, followed by a slow
quivering piece of humanity, as
rMemption, is only secondary to
real as he is repulsive.
tat as a human drama, told with
sy'mpathy, understanding, toler¬
It is not biography but flotion
unce.
that Schnitzler has written, barthe
Where Schnitzler takes a grim
fact that there is an authentie
matisfaction in his üibertino hero's
quality in the portrait'and that che
villainy and his defeat, and views
bachground oi Europe in the eish¬
Fim coldly, appraisingly, sar¬
teench century is so pertectly pre¬
Cionically, Hauptmann has a feeling
sented gives special signincance
repugnance for Luboka’s sins,
to the book.
rnittgated only by his sympathy for
It is Casanova at a later period
sche sinner. Schnitzler'’s novel is
of his liie than that covered by
the more brilliant, more compel¬
his memoirs thät we have here.
ling but he sees not so deeply and
A battered and deleated mian,
notgso universally and his 18
hunted athwart the world by tnat
the Maser genius
last estort of the spirit to fumn
itself wh.le the pulse is still strong,
the zest for life sull impelling, is
given us. But Casanova, though
prematurely worn by his passion¬
ate, mad existence, is still more
alive, more ardent, more danger¬
ous than most.
He is obsessed by one desire, to
return to his native Venice, from
Which he had been Fears in egile.
While awalting sthe result of his
repeated supplications for a par¬
don, at last made certain by his
promises to serve basely his old
enemies, he enters upon one more
amorous intrigue. Schnitzler, in
accordance with his cyniczl inter¬
pretation of life. makes the wom¬
an whom Casanova so longs for
a distinguished scholar. Sho is a
Romola-like creature, aloof, self¬
contained, seemingir the embodi¬
ment of all the virtues. Casanova
discovers that she has a lover and
Ey getting the latter into his power
he secures entrance into her cham¬
ber at dead of night.
He deindes himself with the
thoughi that his own charms are
25
still so great that Marcolina will
—
-
be glad to unite herself with him
and to go with him to Venice. H.s
disillusionment came when he read
Arthur Schnitzler
inthe outraged young woman’s
Cananova's Homecoming.“
countenance, not #thief, libertine.
Schnitzler’s latest novel is re¬
villain,“ but something
Zwhich
riewed in today's Time
erushed him to. earth more ig¬
nominlously than could any terms
of abuse; he read the word which
to him was ithe most dreadful el
all words, since it passed a final
Judgment on him—old man.“
The book is one of high genius,
brilliantly written, but in a vein
that congeals the blood by its cold¬
ness. ito sardonic view of life, its