"Tue Wouax oF Axnros."—By Thorn= fon Wilder. Longmans, Green Ce, Lid, London, 'New' York and Tetonte. Shanghai: Kelly & waleh, Some critics in America have hulled Mr. Thornton Wilder's story as better than "The Bridge of San Luig Rey'. But to our way of inking there is so much difference Uctween" the two that they are scarcely comparable, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is a series of warm, human, comedies, using the last word in its classic sense, each tensely dramatic force and timate appeal. "The Woman of Andres" rather suggests a Grecian urn.
Terence's comedy "The Andria" it seems to belong. more properly to what one might imagine-of the lost plays by Menander, on which Terence founded his comedy. The iyures seem to move in a magic light, themselves and their motives. rather felt than distinctly realized. There is a sen of allegory throughout the book, though it, is hard to say exactly what meaning.
to deduce. Each character wed in his or her own in-quality and we see them reach-out vainly to touch and hold their fellow creatures and always. fulling at the Inst most vital point. The Woman of Andres" herself is noble conception, striving to ignify her profession by classic banquets which shall revive the ancient artistic and philosophic! gatherings of Athens; playing the Indy bountiful to the human wrecks, her sheep, as she calls them, whom she rescues from divers misfortunes, to maintain as pensioners in her eld, and eager to save her little sister Glycerium from her own fate, and fit her for a happy mi nage. The book is a series of itoly painted seenes, each one ich might almost be put upon the stage as it stands. It shows that mastery of writing and construction in which Mr. Thornton Wilder is not to be surpassed and is equalled by few. But whether it will displace "The Bridge of San Luig Rey? from its high place in yepular admiration, we rather doubt,
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