Word: porphyro
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...Advocate's sons know better, but some of them seem unable to resist looking back over their shoulder at the devil of pseudo-sophistication. Two of the other three short stories, by William Abrahams and Martin Collins Johnson, slip at different moments into this fault. The third, Edward Pols' "Porphyro and the Beadsman," is a tedious attempt at a difficult mental portrait which hardly deserves the lead spot in the magazine...
Edward Pols has set out a huge canvas for himself in "Porphyro and the Beadsman," but it reads as clumsily as the title itself. Pols, naturally enough for a Harvard student, lacks the maturity to put in black and white the mental conflict between a priest, grown dubious of his calling, and his former pupil who struggles to save him and "fill him with his own exulting strength...
...revelry of a thousand guests; and somewhere old dames are telling an old story over again: How on this eve thoughtful maids "If ceremonies they did aright . . . " might win sight of their lover in their dreams. The fair Madeline, full of this whim is preparing in her chamber. Already Porphyro stands beside the castle gates. An old beldame speaks...
...Merry, Porphyro, hie thee from this place...
...heroine gets man by an old-time formula. Act II: romance wilts before love is done. Gas bills, grocers, butchers, goad the lovers into separation and sorrowing. Act III: comes reconciliation when the hero steals into his wife's bedroom for the same good reason that inspired young Porphyro to see Magdeline on the Eve of St. Agnes...
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