Backwarens.—By Molt, Ivor Nichsolson & Watson, London, 7/6
However, underlying all these weaknesses' there is very real feeling, an acute understanding of the working man's problem, and an obvious. sincerity, which' in them. selves make the book worth reading.
If publishers would be a little less ardent, the Per covers On Is Would be infinitely more val Thus, to describe Mr. Holt's novel as book you will want to read again and again" is, to say the Toast of it, an exag ration, The author, having state fe himself as u cotton weaver, is eminently fitted to of the lives of the mill han and while describing grievances and difficulties, and their point of view on strikes and unemployment problems, he ea! ries weight and eouvietion, In deal-as ing with the higher, grades of s0- however, he ly not so conand ' the hero, though obtaining our full' sympathy wincing, and th Sage' ces, una ihis rab out of the hopeless at in "which radings) und. longing. to get he feels he ix sinking, is so totally Reinga seve rhe he dos difficult to feel further 7 imo 'a fortune, that
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