Books: Blood and Irony

IN THIS OUR LIFE — Ellen Glasgow —Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).

"When I consider her as a person," wrote Novelist James Branch Cabell of his friend, Ellen Glasgow, "she arouses in me a dark suspicion." Cabell's suspicion is that Ellen Glasgow "is a gentlewoman as well as a genius in an era unfavorable to either. . . ." Ellen Glasgow has aroused even darker suspicions among U.S. readers. They have suspected that she is dull or highbrow, and have translated their suspicions into a considerable lack of interest. Some who have read her Barren Ground, without...

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