HAPPILY SURPRISED

Otago Witness, Issue 2669, 10 May 1905, Page 79

HAPPILY SURPRISED

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Ascot is a cleverly-worked-out personality. Into her mouth the writer puts most of her own theories, hopes, and suggestions. Some of these are w-ell worth reading and pondering, especially those on the overlapping of charitable institutions, and the painful fact that " the poor and honest are often turned aside, money and energy all going to the Christianising of those whom it would take three generations even to humanise " ; and the other mistake of modern philanthropy — the sensational exaggeration of the evils of the life of toil. " Thus you accustom the average mind to be moved only by great wrongs, so that by-and-bye the minor incessant evils that are the real ones cease to touch the great over-excited public nerve." But "A Pagan's Love" is not altogether sad and solemn, practical or didactic ; there are some comic and truly latighter-provoking scenes, and chief among these are Dorothea's experiences in the " Bohemian Boarding-house " of Mrs Jassel. Altogether, it is no more than justice to say that Constance Clyde's first novel deserves, and will command, attention even among the rush of modern aspirants to fame.