. Review of reviews and world's work . isfamily. His son, Stanislav, goes to school, wherehe makes rapid progress and becomes interestedin reading philosophy. After school hours, hesells vegetables from a push-cart. As he growsup, he becomes by a natural process, an Amer-ican, filled with visionof his adopted coun-try, wholly absorbedin her interests andideals. By the forceof his personality andability, he reshapes,after the pattern ofAmerican standards,the whole communityin which he story is delight-fully told; there isnothing of pedantryabout it. The char-acterization is excel-lent
. Review of reviews and world's work . isfamily. His son, Stanislav, goes to school, wherehe makes rapid progress and becomes interestedin reading philosophy. After school hours, hesells vegetables from a push-cart. As he growsup, he becomes by a natural process, an Amer-ican, filled with visionof his adopted coun-try, wholly absorbedin her interests andideals. By the forceof his personality andability, he reshapes,after the pattern ofAmerican standards,the whole communityin which he story is delight-fully told; there isnothing of pedantryabout it. The char-acterization is excel-lent and about thewhole is a spirit ofyouth, of a keen, swiftvital urge that meansAmericanization. The novel, ManyMansions,* by MacConnell,MARY HEATON VORSE ^ust be classifiecl as light fiction, but it:is so well-mannered, graceful, facile, and en-tertaining, that it can be placed with the best Rekindled Fires. By Joseph Anthony. Holt. 347pp. $ ?*Many Mansions. By Sarah Ward MacConnell. Hough-ton, Mifflin. 344 pp. $,. THE NEW BOOKS 109 of the recent novels of American life. PerditaHardwick comes to New York—as so many coun-try girls do—to conquer the city by sheer efful-gence of youth and life. From the disadvan-tageous starting point of a dismal New Yorkboarding house, she progresses to success as an in-terior decorator, and to happiness by marriagewith Terence Kildare. The noveltist is more con-cerned with Perditas love stories than with theinterior decorating. The profession is shadowy,but the men and women who surround Perditaare real people and her world is a world of color and light and sudden perspectives of lifesgraciousness. The shaping of the heroines char-acter by her own pride, her healthy instincts, andgreat thirst for life, is depicted with unusualpower and realism. Her question—even whenhappiness came—is the query of so many bright,talented young girls who fling themselves intothe whirl of metropolitan life: Why, with all theimmortal hope
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