CASTLE DOR

A famous English man of letters of the old school, Quiller-Couch started- and never finished- this refurbishing of the Tristan legend in modern dress. A friend of the family, Miss du Maurier agreed to finish the novel, and the work of two master craftsmen is skillfully integrated in Castle Dor. The result is a story of star crossed lovers,- a spoiled and beautiful young woman married to an elderly inn-keeper, and a young Breton lad, rescued from a vicious captain by well wishers in a Cornish seaport - and exposed to the wiles of the young wife. A learned doctor, student of the local lore, and with his own theories of the realities behind the Tristan story, is shocked at eerie indications that here before his eyes is a reincarnation miracle. He tries in vain to stop it; the romance moves on to its inevitable and tragic end. Sometimes the pace of story bogs down in the scholarship. The end result is perhaps more Quiller-Couch than du Maurier, though it has a certain charm and fascination, and if the sale is not marred by the one-shot appearance, is certain of a substantial du Maurier sale.