IN A GERMAN PENSION
BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD
Crown 8vo. Cloth. 6s.
DELIGHTFUL LITERARY NOVELTY
Never before have Germans, from a social standpoint, been written about with so much insight, or their manners and habits described with such malicious naiveté and minute skill. Miss Mansfield’s power of detailed observation is shown in numerous little touches of character painting which enable us to realise almost as visibly as the authoress herself, the heart, mind, and soul of the quaint Bavarian people. The occasional cynicism and satiric strokes serve to heighten but not to distort the general effect. The one or two chapters which might be called Bavarian short stories rather than sketches are written in a most uncommon—indeed thoroughly individual—vein, both in form and substance. Miss Mansfield’s style is almost French in its clearness, and her descriptions will remind the reader of Russian masters like Turguenieff.
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