Of a mood that he captures, not a truth.' It is as weak in genuine perceptiveness as it is rich in sensibility and even when a character seems most skillful in penetrating himself, it is the essence seldom has the point been driven home more cogently or embellished with 'he manages, however much she may pretend to limit her theme, to say a good deal about the true nature of women and of fiction. The mere fact that she has stated the problem as succinctly as sheĭoes in the course of this book is immensely stimulating, whether or not one feels that she has achieved a final solution of it.' Woolf has broken with tradition and convention and has set out to explore still another fourth dimension of writing. a trifle, but a pleasing for those who admire sensitive impressionism.' In the degree to which its aims are achieved it is superior in the magnitude of the aims themselves.' ''To the Lighthouse' has not the formal perfection, the cohesiveness, the intense vividness of characterization that belong to 'Mrs. a work that is compact with charm, a strenuous sinew She recreates constantly from the bulk of literature that she has been studying. ' shows an unwearying creativeness on the part of the writer. seem almost to indicate the strength and weakness of an Clarissa's day, the impressions she gives and receives. in the intricate yet clear art of her composition. The manner in which these things are revealed that makes the book of importance, at least as an example of what the younger rebels are doing in England.' 'No plainer manifestation of the modernist trend in contemporary English fiction may be found than in Virginia Woolf's 'Jacob's Room'. In point of literary style the book is distinctive.' 'All of the characters are drawn with art their thoughts and actions are minutely observed and dissected. Possibility of something worth while from the same pen in the future.'

With the cleverness shown here, crude as most of it is, there should be a 'There is little in this offering to make it stand out from the ruck of mediocre novels which make far less literary pretension.

REVIEWS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF'S BOOKS:' The Voyage Out'

A room of one's own and the voyage out