"A TALE THAT IS TOLD"
Those who read " Good-bye Mr. Chips!" took away a sense of beauty, fragile but enduring. Mr. James Hilton's latest novel is similarly affecting—"sweet sadness"—and almost as good in much the same way. There is the same economy of means, the same brevity as of life itself, the same skilled craft.
Once again Mr. Hilton's tnle revolves round a gentle character. Dr. Newcome, not quite a success except in the practice of humanity. He is a general practitioner in a small English cathedral city, married to the daughter of a dean, a robust, nononsense sort of woman. And this illassorted pair have a small son, an abnormally nervous child. Out of this simple situation is woven the net of circumstance in which the doctor is irretrievably caught and finally strangled by the law through a miscarriage of justice. Involved with him in this final tragedy of innocence is a young Gorman girl whom he had saved from despair and death and to whom he unconsciously delivers up his heart. Some of Dr, Neweome's incidental musings on life and death are phrased with the simplicity of revelation but are better hot divorced from their setting in this lovely little novel. "Wo Are Not Alone," by Barnes Hilton. (.Vlacmillan.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22741, 29 May 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)
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"A TALE THAT IS TOLD"
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22741, 29 May 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)
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