A KEG-GEORGIAN NOVEL.
MORALS OF THE FARMYARD. Mr. Stephen McKenna, in naming its latest book Vindication (Hutchinson) presumably has some reason for doing so. It is a" gallant word, almost "as satisfying as Mesopotamia, and what it is doing in this galley of sordid and meaningless intrigue only the author knows. But so long as he and Mr. Compton Mackenzie in common with many other modern English novelists continue to glorify soulless scheming in the person of either chorus-girl or society climber, and are content to use their undoubted talent in plumbing the depths— shallows—of decadence, we cannot be surprised at the success of the transatlantic invasion of our bookshops. • For Harold Bell Wright, Marie Conway Oemler, Gene Stratton Porter and the rest of the three-barrelled gang, merchants of " mush " as they undoubtedly are, do at least introduce us to a, world which cherishes the homely and oldfashioned virtues of modesty, loyalty and honour.
So when it becomes a choice between being drowned in honey or poisoned with vermouth the majority are found to prefer the former fate.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18629, 9 February 1924, Page 4 (Supplement)
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178A KEG-GEORGIAN NOVEL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18629, 9 February 1924, Page 4 (Supplement)
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