The Burning Glass (by Charles Morgan) is one more melodrama in which a scientist discovers a new source of power this time by harnessing the heat of the sun. Being the work of Charles Morgan, it is meant as far morethough at times it comes off as far lessthan a mere thriller. The author of The Fountain is a stylishly earnest writer who, while posing philosophic debates over when the new weapon should be used, offers cultivated characters who spout Shakespeare and Keats and dress regularly for destruction.
They are all cozily upper-classindeed, the Prime Minister who hurriedly arrives to claim Christopher...
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