Abstract

As Woman Sees Him

This article presents information on several books. Some of the books are "He Who Breaks," by Inna Demens, "The Point of View," by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi, "First the Blade. A Comedy of Growth," by Clemence Dane and "Caste Three," by Gertrude M. Shields. Three of these novels by women deal deprecatingly but worshipfully with the fourth gently mocks at him. "The Point of View" and "He Who Breaks" are consciously emancipated in matter and sophisticated in manner, but they reflect the ancient and simple-hearted admiration of the grown girl, woman, for the horrid, fascinating boy, man. A yet deeper feminine mystery is involved in their preoccupation, not with the normal healthy child-man or manly child, but with that flabby egotistical fellow with the temperament, whose own sex so comfortably disposes of him by writing him down.