The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-18

marries. The stress of life comes upon
him fast. He learns what love might
have been, too late, and his political
principles go to pieces, partly as the
result of a wider knowledge. but still
more because of the compelling of a
woman's influence The crisis in his
personal affairs is coupled with finan-
cial embarrassment The period is one
of Elasticity, almost of helplessness
He is in the grip of existence but fate
does not wholly have her will with
him, for out of doubt, uncertainty, I'M
happiness, ne discerns the emergence
in himself of the moral imperative and
recognizes the necessity of taking up
and living his life and tanning his soul.
The moral PASTE inherited from '.gen-
erations Of dull decent forefathers who
have kept the law as they understood
1t. is the strongest thing in his nature,
and he bends to the ought heard in
his soul. This is the true end of the
story. for the chance that gives him
the opportunity of heroism at the last
is not an essential part of his develop
ment, although it is fitting he should
leeI IN the end the sense of having
paid his share and done his part of
the worlds suffering. no less than
other men. The final chapter is one
OF the most moving things that Mrs
Ward has ever done
Regarded as study of DEVELOPMENT
Lefty Tressady is no less good than
her husband. She too is in the mill
of the gods andal life bears her whittier
she would not. The transition from
the rather attractive Lefty of the early
chapters with her little airs and graces
to the mean, hard woman of six months
later. and again to the unwillingly
softened and repentant Lefty of the
end is managed as only Mrs Ward
can manage such an evolution.
considered in comparison to her pre-
vious novels, "Sir George Tressady''
shows perhaps comparatively less
emotion and more thought. This is not
bec1hee Mrs. Ward has not keenly
r. li"ed- her characters and their re-
1atlonS, but because, after ALL Lord
-aaNwelIs parliamentary bill is the
central figure of the story We ven
tHre~t0 >tlsfnk that there IS over much
about the Till, and that we might have
realized It's import even more thor
oughly had there been less comment
ufnn IT. However strongly one NAV
c1mc TO feel concerning an act of leg
tslaJcE. its success or failure can never
be, even to those closely concerned
with it, and still less to one WHO only
reads of it. such a vital and absorb
luS HldtleT dS the struggle OF the SOul
depicted in Robert ElSmel,a'. the con-
fict Of emotions in David GTieve."
or even the disciplining OF young en-
thusiasm as told in s'Marcella." 1t is
IN some sort a mistake, perhaps. to
make novel center around an inter
est not immediately human, and vet
how vel it speaks for the seriousness
with which the English take their task
O taw-inaking that n great novelist
should soarely upon the innate interest
of her tens of thousands of readers in
England's legislative problems as to
dwarf the human interest of her story
IL comparison. 1t is ungrateful. how
eyer, t complain of the prominence OF
the bill when it is. after all, only rel
alive. Absolutely speaking there is.
Of course, enough human interest in
the book to furnish forth a score OF
ordinary volumes.
~%9Thes minor characters ars. as usual.
clearly realized and set G11th. They
arc less likeable, perhaps, laan usual.
Lady Tressady. the elder, For instance.
Is as strong a study as Mrs Boyce.
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