Abstract

The Forest on the Hill

The article presents information on the book "The Forest on the Hill," by Eden Phillpotts. The general situation upon which the present story is based is much like that of more one of the earlier novels "Drusilla Whyddon," the woman of simple and bountiful nature, doomed to suffer by her very excess of virtue, has been this writer's heroine from "The Whirlwind" to "Demeter's Daughter." And the two men who strive for her are the familiar two who figure antithetically in so many of the stories, the puritan and the pagan--upper and nether millstone, so far as the woman herself is concerned. As always, there are passages of lyrical description, in which the writer displays an almost voluptuous abandon to the charm of nature--never as a solitary nature, but as a stage, beautiful or grim, upon which little man plays his leading part.