There you have them, each a com
pletely recast individual byway of the
war. each wholly unsuited to the co j
operation and sympathy of the old i
family life The story moves along
byway of the readjustment of these
members of the family and by w r ay
of a couple of love stories that are
rather incidental to this general
theme of personal liberation than any
thing else The most that these two
romances do is to project character
under the stress and strain of un
usual circumstance. Mr. Gibbs is a.
sincere student of the human
In his reactions to circumstance,
always counting in these reactions
the lines n f blood that are so potent
In everybody's life. Heading this
(sketchy analysis. I find that it pie
sents this novel as of a didactic
etrain. It is not that at all 1* is
primarily a. story* whose characters,
euddenlv freed from certain old in
hibitions. are rather blustery and self
assertive They pet ahead by much
talking of the aggressive kind. The
girl in particular, is a repellent crea
ture in her new independence That s
right too for she is hunting for her
self in the wools and ts whistling
tr, peep up her courage. with
ell nf them They are new and
bristling, each according to his na
ture Under the appearance of change
end whim and erratic behavior, how
the story itself moves forward,
orderly, coherent, consistent, toward
enother step gained in individual re
adjustment. A finely strong, a finely
based romance of the present in one
of its most vital problems, no matter
of what nationality «hts problem may
Up [t |c simply one of the questions
f .f the new- dav set out sincerely and
Jn cfcellent drama.
