![]() ![]() ![]() There can be no doubt about the principal faculties which have contributed to its quality: imagination and humour. Forster, in fact, has reached the stage in his development as an artist when, in his own words about Miss Quested, he is "no longer examining life, but being examined by it." He has been examined by India, and this is his confession. We have had novels about India from the British point of view and from the native point of view, and in each case with sympathy for the other side but the sympathy has been intended, and in this novel there is not the slightest suggestion of anything but a personal impression, with the prejudices and limitations of the writer frankly exposed. This is the involuntary fairness of the man who sees. ![]() To speak of its "fairness" would convey the wrong impression, because that suggests a conscious virtue. Forster's reappearance as a novelist and to express the hope that the general public as well as the critics will recognise his merits and their good fortune the second is to congratulate him upon the tone and temper of his new novel. T he first duty of any reviewer is to welcome Mr. ![]()
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