![]() ![]() Pepper, wealthy and eccentric, with a leaning to abstruse learning, and a middle-aged, philandering member of ParliamentĪnd his wife, Clarissa, whom they pick up at Lisbon. On the ship are Willoughby’s daughter, 24 years old, Rachel, a Mr. Ridley Ambrose, a professor, and his wife, Helen, a woman of the smart London world, are going to the antipodes on a vessel owned by Helen’s brother-in-law, ![]() One after going through a hundred pages of it-there is little in this offering to make it stand out from the ruck of mediocre novels which make far less literary pretension.Īs for the story itself, it is painfully lacking, both in coherency and narrative interest. ![]() But aside from a certain cleverness-which, being all in one key, palls on In its most interesting aspects-those in which members of Parliament and their coterie of relatives and friends are the active figures-there can be no doubt. His English novel, by an English writer, gives promise in its opening chapters of much entertainment. ![]()
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