Abstract

One More Jerusalem

The article provides information on the book "Road of Ages," by Robert Nathan. For those who began and stopped with Nathan's "One More Spring," this book should lead back to "Jonah." Moreover, the fanfare that precedes and accompanies publication nowadays, including the accolade of the choice-of-the-next-twenty-four-hours imposes a responsibility on the reviewer to make distinctions clear. Nathan is a minor novelist, that is to say, his talents are restricted but of decent quality, which is a first distinction to novelists of greater and cheaper variety. In his latest book his talent for mixing pathos and farce, ideals and fact, and for gently manipulating the symbolism of an old, old theme until it becomes gradually fresh again and happily contemporary is manifest.