Too Story-book

OLD PYBUS -;Warwick Deeping -Knopf ($2.50).

Having done a fine moving story of simpatico father (Sorrell) and son, Warwick Deeping now undertakes to present misunderstanding father and son, and with less success.

Old John Pybus, who had never understood his sons, disowned them for slacking during the War. But that war made them rich, and him so poor that he had to sell his musty bookshop and take a job finally as porter in a suburban hotel. Here his grandson, Lance, discovers him, white-haired, philosophic, feeding clouds of friendly pigeons. Lance, gentleman bred, chafed at his parents' flashy new-wealth, scorned his father for concealing the identity of his grandfather. Skipping a generation, Lance brought to understanding old Pybus all his young troubles -mixup with a London tart, throes of a first novel. Old Pybus basked in the confidences, gave harsh literary advice, produced just the girl for Lance. That Lance, of avowedly artistic temperament, should accept both the advice and the girl so promptly is somehow too storybook.