KINDLING

A fairy tale in modern dress, distinctly more of the realistic school than Nathan's One More Spring but reminiscent of it in social implication and so on. The story of a staid head of a banking house whose personal life is set awry and who, by untoward circumstances, is thrust into the very inner significance of the utter destitution that results when a town's sole industry is ruined. He is completely a new man — he weighs moral values and finds old standards insignificant compared to rebirth for the town that befriended him. And he uses the powers bestowed upon international financiers to right the greater wrong. Rather fascinating — if unconvincing reading. A bit of Harold McGrath mixed up with Robert Nathan touches. Not a book for staid realists but a book which, once read, will give food for thought.