. Review of reviews and world's work. Mer-rils credit that she felt any pangs. Though Charlesvan Studdiford turns out finally to be a thorough gen-tleman, the more immediate consequences of the mar-riage are tragic enough. Virginia,—glittering littlebutterfly,—is suddenly in the hard grip of womansphysical travail. Under that strain, her husband raspson her, and she irritates him so intolerably that hestrikes her. After that there is danger of the .story be-coming a new version of Paola and Francesca, but thetragedy is checked. The Fire of Spring belongs tothe very best in the seasons American
. Review of reviews and world's work. Mer-rils credit that she felt any pangs. Though Charlesvan Studdiford turns out finally to be a thorough gen-tleman, the more immediate consequences of the mar-riage are tragic enough. Virginia,—glittering littlebutterfly,—is suddenly in the hard grip of womansphysical travail. Under that strain, her husband raspson her, and she irritates him so intolerably that hestrikes her. After that there is danger of the .story be-coming a new version of Paola and Francesca, but thetragedy is checked. The Fire of Spring belongs tothe very best in the seasons American fiction. That Wall Street has its possibilities of romance, nointelligent observer can doubt. To exploit these possi-bilities with originality and verve has been the task ofMr. Edwin Leffevre, author of The Golden Flood(McClure, Phillips). The basis of Mr. Leffevres romanceis sound enough. The suspicion—apparently inevita-ble—that here was a man in the world who could pro-duce unlimited quantities of gold and thus depreciate.
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