On the Mall in Central Park, one winter twilight, Eben Adams saw her for the first time. Hungry, discouraged, he was trudging homeward to his cheap furnished room, a portfolio of sketches under his arm. He stopped and spoke to her quietly, kindly, as one would to an engaging child; she slipped her hand into his, and together grown man and small girl walked down the path into the gathering dusk.

Thus casually began a friendship which was soon to engross the very centers of Eben Adams' being, to lead him to a mastery and a success for which he had hardly dared hope, to give him a knowledge of the hidden way of life such as comes to few. For Robert Nathan, with perception more keen and insight more delicate than ever before, has here written a story whose implications reach out to horizons beyond the experience of our ordinary workday lives. His book is at once the heartwarming story of a gifted artist and a lovely, sensitive woman, and a firm statement of faith in the goodness and purpose of life. It is one of the most beautiful love stories of our day.