The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-19

the second is prose epic, q picture Of
modern life thrown before us with all
it's weaknesses and follies; the third is
a problem novel. She is the author
Of just one book Of criticism. She has
also dealt with the super-normal. In
this she was, probably influenced by
"The Turn of the Screw" by Henry
James. Her "The Flaw in the Cry
stal' contains an account of q very
strange case Of mental healing and"The
Intercessor" is plain ghost story.
Even in her last book "The Tree Of
Heaven" two Of the characters have
super-normal power Of divination.
Her pet theme is the infelicities Of
married life. In most Of her books
there are times when the veil Of mys-
terry is snatched aside and human
frailty so uncompromisingly labeled
that the reader instinctively casts q
glance above him to assure himself
that he is really alone.
Not 50 in t''The Divine Fire" yet it
is full of human error and weakness
but it is conceived on such high
plane that the sins Of the flesh are
dwarfed to their relative value. "The
Divine Fire" came in white heat from
her very heart and soul. All her 9TH
er books are products Of her brain.
There is no indication that she will ever
again reach the heights to which she
climbed in "The Divine Fire" or that
she will ever aspire to do so. The
English paid no attention to her writ
ines until echoes from America arous-
ed them but they are now proud to
claim her. .&. III r
Some of her other writings are The
Three Bronte's, 1912; The Return Of
the Prodical, 1914; A Journal of I'm
pressions in Belgium, 1915; The Bel
frey. 1916; A Defense Of ldealism:
1917: The Tree of Heaven, 1917.
In ""The Three Sisters" by a few
considered her best book, the basis OF
the plot is woman's inhumanity to
woman. Her most entertaining novel
is 'The Belfrey." This book is filled
with real people, and British respecta-
bility is treated with all patience TOR
it's stupidity and narrowness: In The
Romantic" she pictures John Roden
Conway as he is seen through the
eyes of the girl who loved him and
the opening Of those eyes to the fact
that he is a degenerate, the opening
of them by incident after incident un-
til we reach the horror of his death:
Unflinchingly veil after veil is lifted
from the mans personality until the
raador finds himself asking "Can such
things be" and a moment later ac-
knowledging unwillingly "they are.
In "Superceded" she depicts the
sorrow of OUTLYING ones usefulness.
It is a story of a school teacher whom
fate thrust into a place she never
could fill and after desperate strug-
gle is turned out IN her Old age 10
helplessness and want.
The most arresting and important
fiction resulting from the World war
is "The Tree of Heaven"
Mr.. Hart says it is her greatest
achievement. Never, have the reac-
tions of war on domestic circle been
displayed with such penetration and
poignancy and such excellent SYM
II describes the English family OF
the middle class. in three parts. Part
I contrasts childhood with age. Part
II children grown finding themselves:
Part III, War.
One feels that Miss Sinclair knows
all vet pardons all. She never de-
ceives. What she does not know she
leaves out, what she puts in she gets
right. -, =
The letters from the trenches in
Part III contain criticism Of most OF
the literature produced by the war
In one of his letters Michael writes:
It is real, that is it has to do with ao-
solute reality-with God. a.