_Cloth, 12mo._
Mr. Canby, known as a teacher of literature and critic, also as a writer
of books on literary subjects, has written a novel, and one of singular
appeal. Its central character is a young man facing the world, taking
himself perhaps over-seriously, but genuinely perplexed as to what to do
with himself. Coming back from college to a sleepy city on the borders of
the South, his problem is, whether he shall subside into local business
affairs, keep up the home which his father has struggled to maintain, or
whether he shall follow his instinct and try to do something worth while
in literature. This problem is made intensely practical through the death
of his father. The story of what the young man does is exceedingly
interesting. It takes the hero to New York and into the semi-artificial
life of young Bohemia and ultimately brings him back home, where he finds
the real happiness and success.
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