In Britain ay well as in America, Mrs, Susan Glaspell has already established herself as a novelist and playwright, says the "Westminster Gazette." "Her candid publishers in putting forward "The Glory of the Conquered" (Jarrolds, 7s. 64.) dis. arm possible disappointment by telling us that "it is only fair to point out that it was Susan Glas-pell's first novel." The inference 4s that her Inter work in on a higher level. Candour should be met with emdour. This reviewer has not read Mrs. Glaspell's other work, but if it is better than this, or if it is no better, it is an omission he will repair. The writing is at times" too rhapsodie, and the preparation of leading incidents unconcealed, but for all that it is admirable work, real and sincere. It is a Jong story, yet creation does not flag anywhere, The tragedy of gradual blindness is not a new theme, but Mrs. Glaspell so con~ vineingly expresses the truth of emotion in this story of the martyrdom of a great scientist and a great painter that she appears to have created a new subject, The imaginative gift can do anything. Any commonplace from the drab fabric of existence is material for romance. In the vision of the imagination the everyday has the light of another world. It would be dificult to conceive of more commonplace people than" the characters in Mr. Praneis Hackett's novel "That Nice Young Couple" (Cape, 7s. 64). They are ordinary, they are selfish, they have no ideas outside themselves, and their unexciting pleasures and business, they accomplish nothing. The we: man fails finally by running from the only interesting enterprise she ever embarked upon. It is a feat of some distinction to make anyone interested im such people and such episodes. "And Br. Hacket accomplishes this without the exercise of any imaginative gift of poetical quality. It is hard to say how he gets his effects. Irony and sympathy: are two attributes of his writing, but he is never subjective, He might be an interested but unemotional observer -watching the affairs of a colony of ante ap he records, not his. impression,. but what he sees of the ways-of middle-close America,
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