The purpose of this brilliant story of modern English life is to show that a human being, well brought-up, carefully trained in the outward appearances of religion, with a keen intellectual perception of the difference between right and wrong, may still not have goodness, and that ambition may easily become the dominating force in such a character. So the book may be called a purpose novel, but in reading it, one no more thinks of applying so discredited an epithet to it than one would think of applying it to “Vanity Fair.”
The author possesses an admirable style, clear, unaffected, strong. To the discriminating public, the book is certain to give far more pleasure than that public usually gets from a new novel.
With a Frontispiece by C. Allan Gilbert
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