Evening star., 1933-02-09

John Galsworthy's popularity In
America, as well as at home in Great
Britain, is shown by the comments on
his death in the press Of this country.
The quality of his writing Is declared
to have given extraordinary distinction
to his studies of national life and his
drawing Of characters, while some ad-
mirers would place his 'sForsyte Saga"
among the undying contributions to
literature.
"It always Is unsafe to call any
writer great" says the Newark Evening
News, "but of Galsworthy 1t Is entirely
proper to say he exerted vast inf1u-
ence on the fiction of his time and, in
a lesser degree, on the art Of playwrit-
ing" The Birmingham Age-Herald
feels that 'in his plays and novels, de-
spite his apparent detachment, he was
a man Of the deepest sympathy and
understanding That paper also Of
fers the tribute that che win, perhaps,
be best remembered for his 'Forsyte
Saga which is unparalleled in English
literature as a great canvas Of social
history" The Indianapolis News states
that 'he immortalized a whole stratum
of society, as only one other recent
writer, Marcel Proust, in France, has
done; and the award Of the Nobel Prize
ldSt year put Ciic ocdl Otl u1i1Sicl AiiSCA
national recognition Of his place in
literature"
sFrom the very outset Of his career"
recalls the Springfield, Mass, Re-
publican, "John Galsworthy made
1t clear that he had moral senSitiveness
and a humane spirit. These are pre-
eminently the qualities that have made
him known and admired in many coun-
tries, SO that the award to him Of the
Nobel Prize was applauded by ALL" The
Baltimore Sun comments: "GalSworthy
belongs to the classic tradition OF the
novel. Like Bennett, he believed that
form is the foundation Of good fiction,
which is more than can be said about
all of the more modern practitioners
of the novel who have come up since
the war. This quality, with his warm
human sympathies and his ability to
create living characters, won him
tremendous audience throughout the
Engiish-speaking world-an audience
that will regret his passing and con-
tinue to derive keen enjoyment from
the books he has left behind"
Declaring that he was deeply
moved by the injustice Of society"
the Oakland Tribune reviews his work
WIN GIc StdtcluChg. 4A4o oeOAAS Va
British life. of the family, the tradi-
tions and the state; his Forsyte Saga
carving the narrative through momen-
tons changes won him leading place
as novelist of his times. They gave
him the Nobel Prize in letters and
they won for him, in many lands,
legions of warm admirers. He was q
writer almost without sense OF humor,
but one who could create imposing
and enduring characters. or an older
school which exalts workmanship and
builds the novel with artistic thorough
ness, his appeal in America was
scarcely less marked than IN his ma
tive land" The Salt Lake Deseret
News views him as a towering nguro
and comments: "It was fitting for
him to decline the decoration of
knighthood; 1t were fully as fitting
that he should be laid to rest in the
most English sanctuary of idealism in
the world-Westmins Abbey" That
paper offers the Judgment: "He seems
to be immortal; no eccentricity no
heroics; always the vivid, tragic ro-
nance Of life; always proportion, the
golden mean" The San Antonio Ex-
press holds that readers will approve
the movement to place his remains
with the, small company of Britain's
in Westminster Abbey" be-
cause "as much as any writer In his
day, 0alsworthy earned that distinc-
tion" The Express is of>the opinion
that "the Nobel Prize for literature
accentuated but did not kreatly en-
hance q fame already wssfd wide"
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Analysing one OF his more recent |
works. the Louisville Courier-Journal |
says: "The author was strongly affected |