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Tragedy, Q. E. D
Hicks, Granville | April 16, 1930 issue

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The article discusses books and authors. From the first sentence of "Gallows' Orchard" the writer Claire Spencer has the respect of the reader. Here, one feels, is, at the very least, a craftsman. And when the novel is finished one looks back with admiration on the spare, strong lines of its structure. Wise in her selection of incident, sparing but effective in her description, Spencer conducts her story with an assurance that can only be born of complete imaginative comprehension. So sharp is the impression of maturity which the novel makes that one wishes to give the author the benefit of every doubt, even when she employs a device seemingly so cumbersome as the alternation of the historical present with the past tense.

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