me, Manuace Crare." tty D. H. 8. Nichalion. (Cobden-Sanderson. ds.)
It is unfortunate that the publication of Mr. Nicholson's disquisition as fiction should have coincided with the revival of Mr. Bernard Shaw' Aisquisition us drama on the same subject. For Mr. Nicholson has nothing to add to the wisdom, wit, sind folly of Mr. Shaw's "Getting Married," except a few private stupidities of his own which are as unhelpful as Mr. Shaw's, and are, alas! unamusing. His party of strange beings on a barge who agree to devote a week to discussing sex and marriage is a dull party, and the whole argument suffers from the absence of the grocer and the absence of Mrs. George, the two 4 persons in whom Mr. Shaw re. cognizes the existence and the power 4 of common sense and of ecstasy. Mr. Nicholson, like 0 many moderns, allows his personages to use the most scientific language, which confuses all issues. For instance, the first day's agenda are ne. Physlent re Or all three?
The choragus of the party discourages metaphysics, wishing to keep discussion on a practical, scientific, and enfotional plane. Yet no lone'points out to him how large 2 philosophical question is begged in the first four words. You cannot speak of "purpose" without being metaphysical. Why, in the strict plane of physical science, should sex, or indeed anything else, have any "purpose"?
Mr. Nicholson shows a little skill in his characterisation—Peareo, the commonplace, hearty husband; Ronalé, the silly, shocking young modern; Henry, the mystic, celibate priest; and Peter, the buffle-headed sentimentalist, are well drawn in a imple way; but their conversation is too devastatingly like what it actually might be to make an entertaining book.
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