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A Shavian Sacrifice
Salpeter, Harry | November 14, 1923 issue

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The article presents information on the book "The Sacrificial Goat," by Ernita Lascelles. The most astonishing fact about the book is that it is a first novel. The virtuosity of the writing, the ease with which full bodied characters are made to express individuality, the witty dialogue, the easy mastery with which Lascelles wields the baton over her ensemble-all acquit the writer of the offense of being a novice. Indeed, impeccable as is her craftsmanship, one misses the quickening of the tempo, the cry in the dark, the aspiration to untried heights that mark the achievement we call a promise in the younger novelists.

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SACRIFICIAL Goat, The (Book); LASCELLES, Ernita; PSYCHOLOGY; PERSONALITY; FICTION; NOVELISTS
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