MAXWELL, WILLIAM BABINGTON. Glamour (Eng title, Man and his lesson). *$1.75 Bobbs
20–3060
“The hero of this story is a writer of popular plays who, after being jilted by a very prominent beauty in favour of a duke, marries a more common-place young woman, with whom he is exceedingly content. Unfortunately his old love whistles him back, and his fall so preys on his mind that he is about to commit suicide, when the war breaks out, and he reflects that the enemy can probably ‘do the business’ as expeditiously as he himself. His final redemption of character and his wife’s forgiveness are effectively described.”—Spec
Ath p948 S 26 ’19 900w Booklist 16:282 My ’20 Boston Transcript p8 Mr 10 ’20 1450w Lit D p120 Ap 17 ’20 2050w
“It is a good and satisfying book, full of the stuff of life, beautifully told.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times 25:1 F 29 ’20 1100w
“Not a new story, you surmise, only the eternal triangle. But Maxwell has seen it from a new angle.” Katharine Oliver
+ Pub W 97:601 F 21 ’20 360w Spec 123:478 O 11 ’19 90w
“Mr Maxwell presents his characters with an imaginative intensity and emotional fidelity that win the reader’s sympathy with them in their dilemmas.”