Goonave StmaNceR—by Stella MeeMtilan, London, 1924, The most appropriate word use in describing Miss Benson's book. fantastic! To those who like: being made to wonder all the time they are reading a book what the author is driving at and why in the the book' was over written, "Goodbye Stranger" will ho douhi strongly appeal. One ventures. to say, however, that to the average common-or-garden-minded person the "appeal" will not be $0 strong. A "novel" is probably the right dex. cription to apply to the book—it is!aiticult to know what else to call the scene is laid in China, but good deal of apace is taken' up in lemplified in. "Dal JAmerican wife of "Clifford Colton," who immediately upon the return. from their honeymoon becomes a cchangeling who has forgotten his past. How he tries for seven years to return to the normal and the experiences he and his wife go: through form the theme of the: story. The satire is not without.
and wit but one cannot help inking it might have been better Jemployed. I hope Miss Benson will find plenty of readers who enjoy the} "fantastic," but I vastly prefer hor in the pretty and vivid sketches of simpler design which have from time to time graced these columns and, for sake of which, I am sorry to have to say that T ido not like her novel—R.
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