“ME AND, BRICKEY”
Brickey and his spouse belong to tho submerged tenth. Brickey has selfishness and cruelty for hie portion, while Mrs Briokey has humour, clear sight, and a great capacity for resignation, equalled by an affection for her mate which survives all his efforts to kill it. She tells their, story in tlie language used by the ladies of the Cockney race and persuasion immortalised by Dickens, And sometimes she reminds one of the quaint shrewd epigrammatic humour of the watereiders to whom Jacob is so partial. One laughs all through. And also one feels at the same time a strain of lamenting pity for the women typified in the story, and a helpless rage against the men whose cruelty, improvidence, and callousness are so vividly portrayed. But v amusement for the brightness and wit, by the vigour of the vernacular, is the uppermost feeling throughout the reading. The author is T. Le Breton. (The Bodley Head, London.)
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12423, 17 April 1926, Page 12
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