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Two Novels of Source
December 28, 1918 issue

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This article presents information on the books "Birth," by Zona Gale and "Out of the Silences," by Mary E. Waller. Both these American novels, reportedly, are concerned on very different planes of the national life, physical and social experience, and they study the sources of character and the springs of action. Gale places her little drama in the customary village setting, with its comic accessories and quaint character parts. Waller traces the development of an American personality out of a very different set of sources and conditions. She goes back indeed to the first principles of American life the child born on the frontier, trained to face the world with a strong heart and his two hands.

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BIRTH (Book); OUT of the Silences (Book); GALE, Zona, 1874-1938; WALLER, Mary E.; AMERICAN fiction; PERSONALITY & culture; SOCIAL psychology; UNITED States
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