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The two outstanding literaryevents of the summerI Underwood Or UnderwoodNew fiction byJohnGalsworthyand Henryvan DykeIPirit MacDonaldSaint'sProgressMR. GALSWORTHY presentsin this fine flowering of geniusa story that touches all of us,a story of the gulf between the generations—oflove and the loss of old-timefaith.The scene is England, the awakenedEngland of these days, and the storycentres about a single family: EdwardPierson, the fine old vicar, and his twodaughters. From the difficult loveaffairof the one daughter and the discoveryby the vicar that his religion isan impossible thing of the past to hisother daughter arise a sequence of intenselydramatic events leading to amost significant culmination.$i.GoThe Valleyof VisionHE eloquent testimony in fictionform of a great American whohas come through the furnace ofwar with a message that may not beignored.A message contained in a book ofromances, fables, allegories, of penetratinginsight which the critic of theNew York Tribune has aptly describedas "filled with exquisite imagery andinstinct throughout with an exaltedspirituality which seems a part of, andnot apart from, daily human life.""It is gratifying, in this epoch ofoverwhelming war-book literature, tofind a collection of this kind; somethingreally worth reading and uplifting incharacter," says the New York EveningSun.Charles ScribnersSons19