{tei or Gnascn."—By Daisy Fisher, Wiliam Atorras, Londo In this second novel Miss Fisher has shown that the reputation she earned: when her tory "Pieerst™ appeared was a merited one, "Being feredited with wisdom about love fives a writer of fiction no small [Smoant of responsibility. When the Wwrter fea woman, and when the Woman seeks' to. plamo the. depth a man's innermost feelings, (eis fo cany task to uphold such a'elaim of the arties.
The number of men who have made women readers of their novels Say in ill concealed wonderment, "Now how could he know that about jus? grows with every new harvest of fiction, But when the situation reversed not many women since {George Bliot have cha roughly vader= Stood the mien within their Pages.
Miss Fisher gives us a young John Memory" of Grange whom Fortune smiles on so benignly that there fs something almost. ironical mit. Endowed with an unswerving liste nature, he has before the perfect example of the aimotite Warnony, sd accord hat lad grown out of his parents union.
Here Miss Fisher, hesitates to take a hand in the mat deuvrings of destiny, ets tenuous moment cost him the friend-Ship of a childhood" companion ossesued of the very <aalities amd tastes that should have somplementhis nature. Then a beckon-down far hurls him intosthe path fool, goddess-like creature, who, it developed all too late, was goddess-like chief' in appearance, With every stroke thst the skill tal author employs to portray the al relationship Cesween the elder Sir Joun and his wife-a union that Talleain the hunting field~she {is deepening the lines inthe empty trid -cheerleos picture of young Jotn's married life, figures with the saving grace impudence and' warm-hearted ddseretion. move throug the star find there "are actually some ances of nappily married modern fore Mian Fisher sets ital forces people, This. is true. even
of nature to work on 'Sir John's Problem," A mother" who. worries Sbout her son rather more than she ought, inthe light of his. good Jadgrient. along: most lines, is not though. There comes. thunder form which precipitates the ga of fong ago not nly' into, his presence bat into his arms. wenient attack of pnenmoni moves" an ilkfated' "woman. who takes possible the dissolution of marriage, Heresa.faing creak in the machinery is audi And 20 divorce makes its apppazane® on the pages ofthe fa iatory,, ut it comes. in its trae uss Fisher: hag helped, family ise—no tore than an operation.
which verges all foo near the bondage' of old traditions to tree itself from the last trammelling prejudice, And she does, it. with deft, sure strokes "of 'a fast-moving pen
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