Charles G._ Norris, John Murray. London 1928, Just inside the front cover the reader finds explained the symbolism the ch Mr. Norris has} chosen for his remarkable book, epitomized in the definition which ho there affords: "Pig Iron—a seating run directly from the smelting furnace into troughlike This is the story of the moulding, rather the attempted moulding, of a man. In the alton swirl of the metal, erd it takes the shape of its cast, is presented the parable of the fierce vicissitudes which beset the life of Samuel Os-good Smith, Alas! that the final Product of the intensive fires should Tue StuckINe SHor—China in Sign and Symbol. ing failure.
ig is not the happy one Norris's readers would—have liked.
In this story, the writer, most of his brethren, refuses to patronize that sense in us which delights in an illusory presentation of life. He has forsaken ko-believe: our castles are, in the end, dissipated as bubbles. But at the expense of these things, and] by imparting more than—the; usual "proportion of realism his tale, Mr. Norris has, we think, turned out a splendid book, holding our interest from cover to cover, lifelike and vivid in its portrayals. He has not scamped his work, for the book is more voluminous than the usual novel of to-day, rather has jhe put into it much. care and labour, and the result is a success.
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