Books: A Polite Visitor

May Sinclair, a Guest, Is Not Blatant

If anyone should ask me, I would say that Miss May Sinclair was the almost perfect English visitor to these shores—and this quite aside from the fact, or perhaps you may think because of the fact—that she is one of our finest living novelists. She came unheralded by brass bands, press agents, or agents of any sort. Such reporters and interviewers as wrote to make appointments with her she saw. The dignity of these meetings was admirably reflected in their published interviews, proving that the American reporter...