Once it Would Have Been A "Pretty Book"

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 37, 24 February 1939, Page 16

Once it Would Have Been A "Pretty Book"

[Travelling on the Mae road ! grumbled because had no} shoes-till | met a man who had no feet.’’j MRS. MATTHEW ARNOLD takes the theme of her novel, "I had no Shoes" from this old Chinese philosophy, and brings us again into the lives of her Heathcote family, or pleasant collection of well-bred people whose loves and religious preoccupations form the interest in the story. Kenneth loves Susan, and Susan becomes a nun, Christopher loves Betty but imagines that Betty loves Kenneth. Everything is satisfactorily straightened out for every: one but Kenneth, but one is left with the impression that if he is the "man who had no feet," he had a good many compensating comforts and luxuries that few of the rank and file enjoy. Light fiction that a few years aco might have been described a3

"9 pretty book.’

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"!t Had No Shoes." Mrs. Matthew Arnold.» Hutchinsons. Our copy from the publisher.