Personal Sunrise

THE GOLD FALCON, or The Haggard of Love--Smith & Haas ($2.50).

English critics who should have known better have suggested that the anonymous author of The Gold Falcon is Robert Graves or Aircraftman Thomas Edward Shaw (T. E. Lawrence). Publishers Smith & Haas keep a circumspect silence. Whoever the author may be, he knows Manhattan as only an English visitor can, and has at least a bowing acquaintance with London's literary world.

Hero of The Gold Falcon is Manfred, "airman and poet of the World War . . . in search of freedom and personal sunrise." A Byronic figure who thinks of himself as Hamlet, Manfred left his uncomplaining wife and child in Cornwall, fled to Manhattan to get away from the painful memories of an unconsummated love affair with Marlene, a mystical young German girl. In Manhattan he worked and played hard, fell just as violently in love with Barbara, who was engaged to the son of Manfred's publisher. Barbara, captivated by Manfred, broke her engagement but would not go back to England with him, in spite of his assurance that his wife would love her. Just after their difficult parting came a cable saying that Manfred's wife was desperately ill. Manfred, not caring much what happened, bought an airplane, set off for Cornwall. Somewhere in the Atlantic he found his personal sunrise and his life's consummation.

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