Tus Freepou. By A. S. M. Hatehinson. Hodder & Stoughton. 7s. 6d.
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It is always with a certain trepidation that one takes up a pook that follows a great success by: the same author. "If Winter Comes" was not Mr. Hutchinson's first book, but it was his first great. success. It was not a flawless book, but it had a quality best desoribed, perhaps, by the word enthusiasm, which gave promise that the artistic, (and philosophic) blemishes would disappear as the author advanced. This promise has not been fulfilled in "This Freedom." The trepidation of one's first handling of the book is sadly justified. Not only have the faults of the first book remained, but the charm of that has gone. The enthusiasm itself is lacking. As a rule one may assume that an author has started his next book before he has finished the one in hand.
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