Nevinson's mood
is elegiac, he never refuses to face reality.
IRISH FAIRY TALES, by _James Stephens_ (The Macmillan Company).
We think of Mr. Stephens primarily as a poet and an ironic moralist, but
in the present volume a new side of his genius is revealed. It might
seem that too many writers have attempted with more or less success to
reproduce the spirit of the gray Irish Sagas by retelling them, and we
think of Standish O'Grady, Lady Gregory, "A.E.," and others. But Mr.
Stephens has seen them in the fresh light of an unconquerable youth, and
I am more than half inclined to think that this is the best book he has
given us.
SAVITRI, AND OTHER WOMEN, by _Marjorie Strachey_ (G.P. Putnam's
Sons). Marjorie Strachey has presented the feminist point of view in
eleven short stories drawn from the folklore of many nations. Her object
in telling these stories is a sophisticated one, and I suspect that her
success has been only partial, but she has considerable resources of
style to assist her, and I think that the volume is worthy of some
attention.
THE THIRTEEN TRAVELLERS, by _Hugh Walpole_ (George H. Doran
Company). Mr. Walpole has collected in this volume twelve studies of
English life in the present transition stage between war and peace. He
has studied with considerable care those modifications of the English
character which are noticeable to the patient observer, and his volume
has some value as an historical document apart from its undoubted
literary charm.
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