THE SISTERS OF PRAGUE. By Joseph Gregor. (Seeker. 7s. 6d.)—Mr.
Gregor was born a romantic, - but has grown up with the Freudians. The three stories in this book are fantasies upon a theme of Sadism. In the first, which gives its name to the book, the strain is brought out in one of the sisters by her marriage and'prinies fatal toiler husband, her two sisters, and finally to herself. It is the best written of the three. The refined, romantic cruelty of the decadent woman is faced with the crude lust for torture of a debased peasant, from whom she escapes only to die. The other two are the autobiographies of men in whom this strain is inter- twined with megalomania, expressed through the domination of a supreme artist,.-a- woman, and -finally satisfied -only by her death. They are somewhat cruder in coneeption, but are still the work of a vivid and powerful, though per- verse, imagination. •
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