Split Personality

TWO MEN IN ME--Daniel-Rops-- Rockwell ($2).

Author Daniel-Rops thinks Robert Balfour Stevenson did more than spin a yarn and preach a sermon when he wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He thinks Stevenson indicated a psychological truth which he falsified into melodrama. The split personalities in these four stories are due not to drugs but to circumstance; the stories are dramatic but no fairy tales.

Two engineers, isolated in the Swiss mountains, hate each other. One night one of them pushes the other into a gorge, then leads a search party for him; feels no compunction.

A Russian in Paris tells tall tales of himself, passes as a refugee prince. When his French friend finally disbelieves him the Russian goes home and shoots himself, leaving a letter confessing he was really a Bolshevik executioner.

M. Beudard, now mayor of a provincial French town but once a rover who murdered for money, is confronted with a man whom he thinks he recognizes as his old crony in crime. He is all ready to leave the country when he discovers the man is not his old pal after all, heaves a sigh, goes on being mayor.

A mysterious older man becomes guide & philosopher to a group of young students, fires them with enthusiasm to roam the world under his leadership. They all meet at the station and wait for him; he never shows up.

The Author. Though young (29), "Daniel-Rops" (a pseudonym) has written four books, has won two prizes. His first, Notre inquietude, won the Paul Fiat; l'Ame obscure took second place in the Goncourt; Two Men in Me (Deux homines en moi) won last year's Gringoire Prize. He is a professor of literature at a French University.

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