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Fiction in Review
Trilling, Diana | April 14, 1945 issue

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One need not be a particularly accomplished Jamesian to recognize the dominant influence in novelist Rosamond Lehmann's "The Ballad and the Source" Lehmann's new novel is a psychological mystery of the type that the U.S. novelist Henry James delighted in and from the precocious children who see and hear such a large part of the story, through the careful architecture of the narrative and its emphasis on psychological motive to its atmosphere of well-bred horror "The Ballad and the Source" reveals its distinguished ancestry. On the other hand, there is a factitious quality to Lehmann's mystery, a growing sense of mystification for its own sake or the sake only of making a good dramatic yarn.

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BALLAD & the Source, The (Book); LEHMANN, Rosamond; FICTION; BOOKS; MYSTERY; PSYCHOLOGY
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