Warner, Sylvia Townsend - Eunice S. Holsaert (essay date 1947)
Eunice S. Holsaert (essay date 1947)
SOURCE: "Tidbits in Acid," in The New York Times, Section 7, March 23, 1947, p. 16.
[In the review below, Holsaert gives a favorable assessment of the stories in The Museum of Cheats, saying that Warner's "skilled guidance" allows ordinary characters to be "unexpectedly entertaining. "]
Miss Warner is one of that handful of English and American women writers who manage to be by turns compassionate and scathing without their syntax becoming ruffled or their taste affected by the moral climate of which they write. Less vibrant and evocative than Elizabeth Bïwen, and not such a reformer at heart as Elizabeth Parsons, the touchstone of Miss Warner's gifts seems to be her level acceptance of people as they are.
It would be difficult, indeed, to choose the best from this collection of twenty-two short stories[The Museum of Cheats]. Perhaps the title entry, which is also the...
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