Posthumous Novel
DEALING the significant title, “Over D the .River,” Mr John Galsworthy's posthumous novel was published in London last mouth and received by the reviewers with complete admiration Many of the fascinating personalities of Galsworthy’s immortal Forsyte family reappears with no less vividness. The background is .sufficiently recent as to embrace the election of tin 1 National Government in .193.1, “Cavalcade” at; Drury Lane and the French exhibition in Piccadilly.
“So comes to an end,” says tlio Daily Telegraph odi to rally, “a history of our own time of a fidelity arm knowledge such us no other generation of Englishmen has had before its eyes. Greater novelists by far have worked in English, but none who set himself so earnestly to make pictures of the forces and fashions, material, intellectual and spiritual, of his particular period.
“Whatever value in the future may be set on Galsworthy’s art it will recognise that to understand what England was through, in the changing years which ushered in this time of reconstruction, his. books must be read. ’ ’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18249, 18 November 1933, Page 13
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174Posthumous Novel Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18249, 18 November 1933, Page 13
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