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BOOKS OF THE WEEK 
{CtnHnuld/nm fi' 333-) 
of love. Behind him lie the centuries of Italian art, and 
with this fulness of knowledge goes much weariness, the 
sadness of exhausted sensibihty. He becomes a symbolist, 
a mystic of the world of sense, a man of pleasure who weaves 
pleasure into a beautiful pattern of delicate emotions. The 
only supreme passion for him is the passion for beauty, for 
art. The Platonic Socrates, he says in " The Virgins of the 
Rocks," " taught me to seek and discover in my own nature 
genuine virtues and genuine defects, that I might arrange 
both in accordance with a premeditated design, striving 
with patient care to give a seemly appearance to the latter, 
and to raise the former upwards towards the supreme per- 
fection. ... At last he communicated to me also his faith 
in the dcemon, which was none other than the mysteriously 
significant power of Style." 
He devoted himself first to poetry, and, as has been often 
observed, he is a poet by instinct. The poet, confronted by 
hfe, and induced by the intellectual trend of his time to accept 
the physical interpretation of life, became Epicurean in his 
art and superficially cynical in his philosophy, but not 
fundamentally cynical. 
In " The Child of Pleasure " and " The Victim," the 
passion of love may seem trivial, the incidents slight, but it is 
his business to invest the least triviality which he treats with 
his own intensive interest. It is by his genius for style that 
he does the trick, that the trivial becomes important. But 
style is not verbiage. If the trivial becomes important, 
that is because he has seen it in his own way ; it has acquired 
a tone, a flavour, a quality ; it has become worth while ; 
it has been related to the whole of hfe. One may say that it 
is by style alone that the three melancholy and lovely maidens 
in " The Virgins of the Rocks " become so mysteriously 
interesting, that their home, under the spell of some strange 
madness, haunted by this thwarted passion and lovehness, 
becomes dreamlike and balefuUy enchanting ; but this is only 
to say that thus he has imagined and seen the " Virgins of 
the Rocks," and that by language he has communicated 
his vision. 
The novels pubUshed in this series are " The Child of 
Pleasure," "The Victim," " The Triumph of Death," " The 
Virgins of the Rocks," and "The Flame of Life." The 
translations for the most part have been well done. The 
volumes are pleasant to look at and to handle. 
"Men, Women, and War." By Will Irwin. 
(Constable.) 3s. 6d. net. 
To read Mr. WiU Irwin's book is to make us feel enthusi- 
astic about ourselves. He is an American, and he observes 
us, inquires about us, as once we used to inquire about other 
nations, without reflecting that our nation, too, was not 
without its interest. For the first time for many generations 
we English, or British, are beginning to be interested in our 
own national qualities ; we no longer take ourselves for granted ; 
we are concerned that the Americans, for example, should 
think well of us. Mr. Irwin finds fault with us, but he explains 
away all our faults with an amazing generosity, and con- 
centrates on his task of asserting the fitness of our men for 
battle, the splendour of their achievements at Mons and 
Ypres. At the latter place he maintains that the British 
" won the climacteric action in that long battle which must 
determine the future course of this war." Putting aside the 
bias which naturally inclines us in Mr. Irwin's favour, we may 
still say that this is one of the most vigorous impressionistic 
accounts of civilians and combatants in the western area, 
that any neutral has yet given us. 
"Rank and Riches." 
(Stanley Paul.) 6s. 
By Archibald Marshall. 
The selling of a great house and estate by a Marquis 
who had dissipated a fortune ; the arrival of a parvenu 
millionaire and his family, and their reception by the county ; 
the affairs of this county as they appear to the millionaire, 
the millionaire's son, the estate agent, the Squire, the Marquis, 
and all their womenfolk— such ;ire the main subjects m 
Mr. Marshall's novel. Mr. Marshall has a definite method 
which he has employed in all his books since " Exton Manor." 
He describes a house, and tells you all that it is possible to 
tell about a house. He then describes a pubhc auction at 
this house, and gives you all that it is possible to tell about 
an auction. He introduces a Squire, and the Squire is minutely 
described, and so on. Then follow conversations, long con- 
versations about trivial matters, and everyone speaks according 
to his or her character. At length, after a vast accumulation 
{CcHtimud tn pace 337.) 
