Ir. this case she does not go as
deeply inio her liero's ancestry as in
some of her earlier studies, but we
get fairly full length portraits of bis
i-arents. especially the mother, of his
brothers and sister, an important
Cade John, ar.d. in general, the sur
roundings of his boyhood. Cleve-?
more fuilv. Crovcr Cleveland Harrod
Is a sport from a very ordinary,
nice, intelligent but stuffily "bour
geois" family, in a middle sized Ohio
1 dy- The boy has aspiration* and
mote taar. a touch of genius. At the
very outset we meet one of the
Subtlest passages in the book, in the
fine insight ot Mrs. Walls's analysis
of the boy, the "budding genius/'
and of his mother's well meant but
Pitifully inept tampering with his
psychic ins ides. Cleve naturally took
himself very seriously. "Youth,"
says Mrs. Watts, 'lacks the two
main easements ot We?a sense of
tiumor and the spirit of compromise
?fortunately, for otherwise how
e.>?jd \outh. which does everything.
?lo anything?" 1-oor Cleve--most of
the rest of tue story deals with l is (
;>aiiful acquirement of the necessary
' spirit of compromise," to his u:ti-.
mate ticstruction?his enforced bow
i'Tg down in the House of itimmon. '
It is a profoundly itk lancholy |
look, yet not altogether depressing.
