Mr. Hergesheimer, far less unsurely than any other American writer of to-day, gives us hope for the future of American literature.
In the second and third we do discover traces of the Mr. Hergesheimer whose talents excited us in 1918.
Mr. Hergesheimer's introduction is a more or less unsuccessful special plea.
Nor did we ever participate in Mr. Hergesheimer's "contemptuous indifference to fate."