Unoranerse Ques By Sir Philip 64.)
This is a rather weaker book than "The Middle of the Road," but on the same plane and. inevitably covering some of the same ground, since it claims to be a survey of the ast 0 years. The quest is unchang; ing, as the title declares it, and it will never change. Through the tentative beginnings of @ rapproschoment between the Haves and the Have-Nots, represented by. the "Settlements" of well-meaning young men if growing districts, through the queer episodes of the struggle for Woman's Franchise, through the war and the after ma of the war, which is to-day, the guest continues; and when there is no quest there will be an inferno or a millennium, Sir Philip's leading character is an attribute rather than a woman: Katherine stands for devotion, for courage, for suffering fidently' borne. She faintly allegories! suggestion about her of also standing for the unconquered human spirit in a race that has seldom needed courage more instantly. It does not want. saying that her story, and the interlocked story of the man who jis supposed to tell it, are full of truth and sympathetic observation, Jand often give a quick touch to a sensitive nerve in the reader. The interest of the chronicle of events still a little overwhelms the fictitious reach a wide public with his picture by making "it a fancy one "with figures" instead of a mere starkly realistic sketch done on the spot. fit is hardly as a novel that the thing has grip—rath ming-up, coloured of view, but, on the whole, amazing.
impartial, as is everything that he has ever written, The Russian part is extraordinarily interesting land unexaggerated. The women at home during the war and their Jenvenomed spirit, in some excusable cases, are drawn to the life. We Jdrag ourselves back to those days, Iso recent and so. incredible, with [shrinking reluctance that "is not ingratitude. Few novelists can reabsorb us in them; but for the time, Sir Philip has done this—and not without a purpose or a meaning.
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