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CnON At the Author s Qub in London, just before the deluge, I asked concerning the writer of this book. He is a Pole, a member told me. Though, he added, perhaps I am thinking of Conrad. Perhaps he was. In any event that is all I know about Mr. George, except that he is one of the few great novelists of our day. Generally, the simetoi, the cognoscenti, the people on whose judgment one may rely, do not confuse him, as my friend did, with Conrad, but they put him on the same plane. That plane is very high. It is a plane sparsely inhabited, quite polar, on which luminously the aurora plays. You will not find Mr. Caine there, or Miss Corelli, or Mr. Oppenheim, or any of the famous authors who know so well how to make every subject uninteresting. But George Moore has resided there. It is there that Mackensie wrote Sinister Street and Hichens wrote Flames. It is there that AB ed of Roses was made. When this novel first appeared it annoyed England, it annoyed too the United States. England is the most hTX)critical country in Europe. Fortunately we are not slackers. The United States is the most hypocritical land in the world. But the annoyance which the book induced, resulted in continuous editions. I know of nothing else against it. Thirty years ago, Edmond de Goncoint produced La Fille Elisa. It is the story of a harlot. Two thousand years before it appeared, the Sosi Brothers of Rome the first publishers with whom I have any acquaintance produced Mcecha, a stor- of the same kind. From then on, down to a date relatively recent, amilar novds ap Dezired.
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A Bed of Roses
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