Tae Garvex Party.—By Katherine Mansfield. London: Constable Ca. Pp. 276. 7s. 6d.
Miss Katherine Mansfield's latest book is bound to be a joy to the Jitorary craftsman: there is a brilliant play of technique on every page. She rides trium-pliantly over the most difficult of all the writers' courses—which is the short-story course; more, she goes out of her way, it seems, to characters mutely demand recogni-; hunt out all the challenging jumps. tion from us and yet most of the She has the modern artist's love of Europeans in China have not even conniving at a technical problem a nodding acquaintance with them!! for the sheer joy of getting round Not so the Chinese who emigrate! at dexterously.
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