The Poor Old Man

FATHER MEANS WELL--Hugh MacNair Kahler--Farrar & Rinehart ($1).

Belden V. Plimsoll, president of Inter-continental Adding Machine Co., was no ordinary father. He saw no reason why principles and practice which had brought him business success should not be applied to the ticklish task of bringing up his only daughter. Lollie was pretty and had reached years of indiscretion. Her mother's clear feminine eye saw her wilful daughter with understanding but helpless despair. Nothing permanently troubled Tycoon Plimsoll's occasionally anxious optimism. The "big toad in the one-toad puddle of Lakeville," he could arrange situations to suit himself. Ineligible but attractive young men were shipped off to faraway posts; harmless, ambitious eligibles were invited to dinner. Father Plimsoll did not even shrink from employing a detective. But his best-laid plans did not so much go wrong as turn inside out, a trick of Fate's (or Author Kahler's) which enabled him to refrain from beating his breast--in fact, to receive congratulations on his shrewdness--when, an unwilling wedding guest, he heard the loud bassoon. Author Hugh MacNair Kahler, 47, is of that school of U. S. writers which owes allegiance to Booth ("Old Tark") Tarking ton. Although Father Means Well is his first novel, Author Kahler is a well known short-story writer and has been at it for years. Tall, lean, pleasant-but-slightly-worried-looking, he lives in Princeton, N. J., where he went to college. He works hard, is good at archery, enjoys poker. Summers he spends at Kennebunkport, Me., with his great & good friend Tarking ton. He "denies bitterly" that either he or his only daughter Kingsley are to be found in the pages of Father Means Well. Other books: Babel, The East Wind.

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