We may laugh over these things in a book and learn the better to laugh over them in life, even when we are cast for the uncomfortable rôles in their enaction. But we should not like to be the reader who may laugh at such chapters as those which tell of young Osborn’s first attachment to the ideal, as embodied in a certain Miss Fairweather, some years older than he.
This is a book which takes its place with the best of Tarkington and with the earlier Howells. For breadth of understanding, accuracy of observation, fidelity of reporting it is not easy to think of an American novel that transcends it.
Mrs. Vorse was born, in New York, Mary Marvin Heaton, daughter of Hiram Heaton and Ellen Cordelia (Blackman) Heaton. She was educated abroad. She was married on October 18, 1898, to Albert White Vorse, and, secondly, in 1912, to Joseph O’Brien. She is correctly Mrs. Joseph O’Brien.
_The Breaking-In of a Yachtsman’s Wife_, 1908. _The Very Little Person_, 1911. _The Autobiography of an Elderly Woman_, 1911. _The Heart’s Country_, 1913. _The Ninth Man._ _The Prestons_, 1918.
_The Prestons is published by Boni & Liveright, New York._
Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
showed Miss Johnson=> showed Miss Johnston { pg 145}
demanding an implicity of obedience=> demanding an implicitly of obedience { pg 149}
Books ry Clara Louise Burnham=> Books by Clara Louise Burnham { pg 282}