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A GREAT NOVELIST. Mr. JOHN GALSWORTHY.

(By Eric Gillott./

Writing twelve years ago, Mies Sheila Kaye-Smith, in her mono- graph on Mr. Galsworthy, advanc- ed the opinion that he takes his place in modern literature chiefly. by virtue of his plays. Criticism mny to a certain extent damage him as a novelist, but the most searching critics cannot leave him anything less than a great play- wright," This was the considered opinion of an able and disinter- ested critic, and it is a timely re- minder, when read to-day, that be fore the triumphant publication of "The Forsyte Saga" and the volume of short stories entitled "Caravan," Galsworthy's reputa- tion rested mainly on "The Silver Box," "Strife," und "Justice." In those days Galsworthy audiences were largely recruited from the ranka of those who now flock eagerly to representations of the plays of Tehckov and Plraudello. Ile has not changed his methods drastically since, but his increased command of dramatic technique has enabled him to conquer the popular theatre and such plays an "The Skin Gama" and "Loyalties" |

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In his plays it is Galsworthy's practice to place a situation condition of affairs before his audience without attempting solution of the problem: "Justice," for instance, is directed against prison conditions, and especially against solitary confinement, and the fairness with which the prison officers are portrayed is typical of the dramatist's method. "Strife" ahows the terrible results of a #trike and "The Silver Box" gives a haunting picture of the effect of a first theft upon a very poor family.

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ties," which is, perhaps, the finest stage play of them all, seems a

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account of the Company.

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very melodramatic affair when one that little London garden, disclos❝See reads. the printed version.

The treatment of all three-pro-

ing its native shadowiness; streaks blems is carried through on the

There is no doubt that suc-and smudges such as Life smears same lines. There is not a sus-

ess has done nothing to increase over the faces of those who live- picion of over emphasis, the inci- Mr. Galsworthy's reputation as ao consciously. The late per- dents of the story are shown with dramatist. Curiously enough the fume of the lac came stealing. almost photographic realism, and same criticism applies to his other forth into the air faintly ameeth- the introduction of scenes in a

work. The four first books offed with chimney smoke. "There Court of Justice, in a Board Room, stories and sketches, written un- was brightness but no glory in and in a prison are quite, free from der the pseudonym of ""John Sin- that little garden; scent, but no the qualities which are usually is john" need not concern the critic strong air blown across golden sociated with dramatic presenta seriously, but the "Island Phari- lakes of buttercups, from seas of tion. By way of criticism of Mr.seea," published in 1904, is a de-springing clover, or the wind-sil- Galsworthy's methods in these cisive and indignant attack upon ver of young wheat; music, but no early plays, one en only remark the self-satisfaction of the British full choir of sound, no hum." that he makes the most of his middle classes, as he saw them. cases; a cruel fate seems to mark Ferrand, the French vagabond, an

An Air of Detachment.. Galsworthy is concerned not so) them down until it is impossible pearance in other plays and ture as with its more subtle mani- down his unfortunates and hounds artistic waster, who makes an ap-much with the great forces of nu- for them to And any pleasure in stories, is the only live character festations and this extract from. life.

in the book,

"Fraternity," is typical of his

In "ustice," a powerful indiet- ment of the solitary confinement system, he is careful to show the essential fairness of the Governor and Doctor, and he allows himself only one gibe at the expense of the Prison Chaplain, who is asked for some particulars of a young Nonconformist, serving a term of imprisonment for forgery. The Chaplain replies: "He's a young man with large, rather peculiar eyes, isn't he? Not Church of England, I think?"

Mr. Galsworthy la concerned rather with the state of things than with individual crimi- HAIN. His anger. In directed against a civilisation which allows one man to escape on payment of a fine, when another is compelled to serve a term of imprisonment, short though it may be. Years ago Mr. Galsworthy laid down the rules which guided him in writing these early plays: "A good plot is that sure edifice which slowly rises out of the inter-play of eir cumstance. on temperament and temperament on circumstance, within the enclosing atmosphere of an idea."

In "The Man of Property," the method, and also of his mind. first part of the Forsyte Saga, There is always an air of detach-! there is also the same klen, the ment about all that he writes; hei satire of a class, this time the is one of the least obtrusive and i prosperous upper middle class, most sincere of contemporary, whose happiness seems to lie in Ita writers, and he is obviously a be possessions. Soames Forsyte is liever in maintaining relicence the chief representative of all that about the history of his own life, the Forsyte stand for. He is out- an opposed to the growing school, wardly wooden, the type of Eng-of writers which appears to think ishman, who has gained for us that an attack of toothache has a among certain European nations certain amount of publicity value. the unenviable reputation of being

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the most hypocritical race in the world. Ife is true to his own code, and almost entirely incap- able of understanding that other people may not be inclined to fall in with it without protest. There is nothing malleable about Soames, He is a delight and an exaspera- tion to those who read of his life story in. "The Man of Properly". and In all the novels that have Hucceeded it. He represents the rigid narrow minded property

F owning Englishmnt just as Irene and Bosinney are the leaders of the forces opposed to this particu- lar form of convention,

A Rapidly, Changing England, "The Forsyte Saga," "The Coun- try House" and other Galsworthy novels have been compared to the work of Anthony Trollope, but It seems to me that there is little ren- son for such a comparison. One never feels that Galsworthy pos Hesses the intimate knowledge of his family that Trollops reveals in his histories of the Barsetshire country. Nor in Galsworthy able to put forward characters able to rival Mrs. Proudle or the Archdea- con, to name only two of many. Galsworthy's achievement lies in the picture he has given us of one phase of a rapidly changing Eng- land, and one has the Teeling that the author is not so happy in writ ing of contemporary mattera.us ho was when he wrote the magnificent chapter on the funeral of Queen Victoria, which appeared in the third part of "In Chancery."

Charity, sympathy for the un- happy und destitute, wistful regret for the things that are past, all these show Mr. Galsworthy at Austere Dramatic Writing. his best, provided that he has also He to convinced of the neces- opportunity for the exercise of his alty of austere dramatic writing, peculiar irony. Mr. Galsworthy One does not look for brilliant always writes charmingly about epigrafns in his work. One is youth and seems to have as much perpetually conscious of the au- sympathy and understanding for thor's purpose, his determination the troubles of the young na hla to further the progress of his own "Pigeon" had. He is able to story with every word that his express his sense of beauty when? characters speak. Latterly his he is writing about youth and love sense of theatrical requirements and he is always remarkably sus- occasionally induced him to ceptible to atmosphere. He has a

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