The action begins and ends on the familiar ground of Miss Gale's "Neighborhood Stories," a small town on the Wisconsin River. The first half of the story is the better part, for here the reader is so cunningly enticed into the life of the village of Burage that one has the sense of being part and parcel of the fiction. The theme involves the use of many characters -- all of them admirably drawn -- but only three, father, mother, and son, are other than figures of the background. The boy, doubtful of one parent, scornful of ...
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The action begins and ends on the familiar ground of Miss Gale's "Neighborhood Stories," a small town on the Wisconsin River. The first half of the story is the better part, for here the reader is so cunningly enticed into the life of the village of Burage that one has the sense of being part and parcel of the fiction. The theme involves the use of many characters -- all of them admirably drawn -- but only three, father, mother, and son, are other than figures of the background. The boy, doubtful of one parent, scornful of the other, takes over their energy, the boundless impulses of life working toward perfection, through them, through him, and everyone by the miracle of birth. Nature used the first molds to collect its forces, flinging them out again in finer form in the son with the power to create art and beauty. The book shows the working out of the spiritual law that all human desire, no matter how wayward it may seem to be, however pointless or uncontrolled, finally incarnates in a form that will touch the goal of that desire . Nothing is lost, not even stray impulses. Therefore we can know what must come to birth. -- Review of Reviews and World's Work , Volume 59
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