+ − Sat R 129:253 Mr 13 ’20 840w
“It is not easy to justify a pluralist metaphysic on intellectualist grounds, and one cannot help feeling that, as against Mr Russell on the one hand and Mr Bradley on the other, Mr Richardson is ‘playing the odd’ all the time. But he plays with spirit and no mean dialectic skill.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p15 Ja 8 ’20 580w
RICHARDSON, DOROTHY M. Interim. *$2 Knopf
20–9715
“Fifth in the long series of volumes published under the general title of ‘Pilgrimage,’ Miss Dorothy M. Richardson’s new novel, ‘Interim,’ continues the history of that young woman, Miriam Henderson. So closely connected with its predecessors as to be a part of them rather than a separate book, ‘Interim’ would probably be almost unintelligible to any one not possessed of a close acquaintance with the earlier books. When ‘The tunnel’ came to an end Miriam Henderson was apparently on the verge of leaving Mrs Bailey’s house, but we find her still living there when we meet her in ‘Interim,’ despite the coming of the boarders. Among these boarders there are several young physicians from Canada, and one of them, bearing the unattractive name of von Heber, supplies the suggestion of a plot, which is the only thing of the kind the book contains.”—N Y Times
“She leaves us feeling, as before, that everything being of equal importance to her, it is impossible that everything should not be of equal unimportance.” K. M.
− Ath p48 Ja 9 ’20 150w
“We prefer our novels as novels, and not following the technique of Chinese chess explained by a politician in yachting terminology. There are pages and pages of drivel, too.” C. W.