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THE BELFRY
THE BELFRY
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"The Belfry" is a fine novel written in sprightly, journalistic style. The events lead up to the scenes of The Great War (WWI).
But here the War is only incidental: it is pulled in at the end, none too ceremoniously, to solve a few marital difficulties. "The Belfry" has a most queer hero, a most unsympathetic heroine. He is a successful little author, half genius, half bounder, and she a large and square jawed daughter of cathedral upbringing who has begun by loving his genius and come to despising his bad manners. But the war settles it all most heroically. London and the churchly relatives are suddenly deserted for the toppling villages of Belgium; life for both the author and his pursuing wife becomes just one wild automobile ride after another. Rescue follows rescue until all the clap-trap of battle has been fulfilled and properly rewarded. It is a very trivial set of circumstances that precede the Belgium melodrama; but there is May Sinclair's shrewd art. She can blend, as effectively as any living writer, the sublime and the ridiculous in plot as well as character.
But here the War is only incidental: it is pulled in at the end, none too ceremoniously, to solve a few marital difficulties. "The Belfry" has a most queer hero, a most unsympathetic heroine. He is a successful little author, half genius, half bounder, and she a large and square jawed daughter of cathedral upbringing who has begun by loving his genius and come to despising his bad manners. But the war settles it all most heroically. London and the churchly relatives are suddenly deserted for the toppling villages of Belgium; life for both the author and his pursuing wife becomes just one wild automobile ride after another. Rescue follows rescue until all the clap-trap of battle has been fulfilled and properly rewarded. It is a very trivial set of circumstances that precede the Belgium melodrama; but there is May Sinclair's shrewd art. She can blend, as effectively as any living writer, the sublime and the ridiculous in plot as well as character.
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