Position avd. its high reaponalbilc ties in the England of King Ed-sear' time, and then draw into (the vortex of the War afrugete and "subsequent social" upheavals, with "the "inevitabity of human rageely. But yet hig English folk come out of i without, melodrama fud with cheir fundamental virtues hei' prejudices, perhaps. they. shed ome of their iiusions Me. Severn [will possibly agree that he owes a good deal to Galsworthy, although hho is so modest a writer that would disclaim any attempt to rival the creator of the Forsyths. For all: that, he establishes for himself with thie second volume a niche of irritating: modern school does not prevent him from making use of the better methods of that school. If this book, in these days of stunt boosting, does not immediately create ecstatic spasms in the book-selling world, it may at least be expected to meet with far more meritorious ind perhaps become theatrical world 'a silent success,—e.it
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