The Crystal Cup

Inhibitions and a neurosis against sex fight a losing battle with endocrines and glands In a romance of atavism which Gertrude Atherton calls The Crystal Cup.� Taking her title from George Sterling's Into a crystal cup the dusky wine I pour and musing at so rich a shrine I watch the star that haunts its ruddy glow� Miss Atherton uses her conception of Freudian theories to clear up the duskiness.As a result the book Is more or less a study of sex Inhibitions. Melodrama has Its place in the pages of “The Crystal Cup� as the wine of life pours Into the veins of the heroine Gita Carteret.