Books: Adam & Eve

ADAM & EVE—John Erskine—Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). The simplicity of Author Erskine's formula is so evident that definition is unnecessary. What escapes definition is this: why should talk that would be only mildly witty coming from the mouths of imaginary characters be continuously entertaining when imagined as spouting from mythical Helen of Troy, legendary Galahad or biblical Eve? Here is the triangle of Eve, Lilith, and poor old Adam, who gets tossed up and down in the web of their attractions like a fresh—man in a blanket. First Lilith gets him, then Eve, then Lilith, then Eve. (Then he gets a son....