One More Spring

ONE MORE SPRING--Robert Nathan-- Knopf ($2).

In Author Robert Nathan's urbanity there are as yet few signs of foppishness. Like a U. S. Anatole France (without the mordant bite of France's wit) he is both urbane and neat.

Not to be outdone by competing compatriots, Mr. Otkar, Manhattan antique-dealer, shut up shop. His principal remaining asset, one large antique bed, was a problem which the timely arrival of Morris Rosenberg, a penniless fiddler, helped him to solve. Together they lugged it to Central Park. A lucky encounter with a Mr. Sweeney, street-cleaner with a yearning to play the violin, got them a D. S. C. hut to shelter them. Daytimes, Rosenberg fiddled for pennies on street corners, Mr. Otkar prowled around, stole occasional eggs. Evenings, Rosenberg taught Mr. Sweeney how to fiddle. When Mr. Otkar came back one night with Elizabeth, an idealistic prostitute, they all lived together as innocently and quarrelsomely as brothers & sister. And though Mr. Otkar's big bed was not quite big enough for all of them when the fugitive bank president joined their company, the Sweeneys stepped in, helped their proteges through the winter to one more spring. As in most fanciful satires, probability is offended sometimes; but the reader, never.

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