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SWINNERTON, FRANK ARTHUR. September, *$1.90 (2c) Doran
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Mr Swinnerton’s new novel is a story of the coming and passing of love in the late summer of a woman’s life. As in his memorable “Nocturne,” the characters are four: Marian Forster; her husband, Howard; Cherry Mant; and Nigel Sinclair. In the beginning, Howard, who is eleven years older than his wife, and far past his youth, is carrying on a love affair with Cherry, a girl of twenty and daughter of one of Marian’s friends. Marian is shocked, not at Howard’s faithlessness, which is an old story to her, but at Cherry’s bright callousness, for irresistibly she feels herself drawn to the girl. Then comes Nigel, young, charming and adoring, to offer her his boyish adulation and surprise her into love. But youth responds to youth and Nigel is won over by Cherry. The interplay of emotions is delicately complex, involving on Marian’s side love for Nigel, sympathy for Howard, and genuine friendship for Cherry.
“Mr Swinnerton’s analysis of the women’s characters is singularly penetrating. He makes the conflict and its solution arise inevitably out of the two opposed natures; the plot and the characterization are not two distinct things, but the same.”