"THIS FREEDOM."

NZ Truth, Issue 882, 21 October 1922, Page 14

"THIS FREEDOM."

This book has been nearly as much discussed arid reviewed as Mr. A. M. Hutchinson's other well-known book, "If Winter Comes." There seem to be no half measures with any of the •criticisms. Either Rosalie/wag absolutely right and Mr. Hutchinson wrong, or the other way about. There is Ana aspect of the story which is interesting, and I think very true. Mr. Hutchinson impliefe that a girl working on her own, living 'her own life, and without any ties, tends to become selfish, and engrossed .with the idea of self-advance-ment. This is particularly so when the career she has chosen, is business, because her work is riot concerned with human sympathies. , Other. professions, such as nursing, medicine, law, arid teaching are concerned with people and their lives, their illnesses, troubles, and quarrels. If Rosalie had lived at home while carrying- on her carer, the career might have suffered, tout she would probably not have become so eielf-cen-tred and unsympathetic. If she. ha« 3 shared her career with a friend, probably both she and her career* would have benefited; but by- the time she had married, and had a home and family of her own, it was too late. She had already become engrossed m her work, hard and selfish., It is a general saying that "women are more selfish than men. This may be, and if so it is probably their training that has made them so, for it seems that when they go out to make a career for themselves m the way that men do they may gain freedom, tout they are m danger of losing their unselfishness and sympathetic qualities.