A Fine First Novel by a Very Young Author Bunowess—Mly Henry Gicen, JIN.
Dente Ta edt nat ies The first novel by an author hardly out of his teens is a really remarkable achievement. John Hare tone of the ultramodern Public School boys, who is deeply interested in literature and art, as well as in, the young friendships which Dis-radi described so admirably, but! cares little for the routine of work id. games. Extracts from hix lary are given, and we Kam how. and why he admires Carlyle and Gogol, and catch him quoting the famous epigram from Potash and Perlmutter: "Polygamy is a matter of opinion, not of morality." He is accidentally blinded, and the rest of the book shows how the loss of sight changed his mental outlook and compelled him to reconstruct his cosmos. self-communings are described with the minute realism of a Russian drama of introspection, and 9 are the reactions the catastrophe of his mother and! of his old nurse as she sits by the fire and brews her cups of tea, 'Q" once satirized the pre-Raphaelite detail in which he excels: in a description of the contents of draper's window, but w are bound. to admit that Mr. Henry Green does very well indeed, showing how his personal dramatic are influenesd Uy their inanimate yet intimate associates.
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