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An excerpt of a review from "The English Review" - Vol. 41 - Dec. 1925.

"MRS. WOOLF'S "Common Reader," which appears almost simultaneously with this novel, exhibits her as an essayist of great authority, a traditional stylist and a wit of no mean order, but in "Mrs. Dalloway" we are given a complete exposition of the newest of new methods of story-telling. As in the courts of Heaven, one day in Mrs. Dalloway's life is better than a thousand - it fills a book. Everything that the cinema cannot give - and a good deal that it can - is here set forth; all the current of her swiftly flowing thoughts and impressions, infinitely more significant when realized in the form of printed words than they can ever be when only vibrating silently in the wireless of the nervous system - but how difficult to recapture and to pin down in type, and how fascinating or repellent according to the number and quality of one's valves.

"Artistically - as the critics say - it is hardly fair to include the psychological processes of others, external to Mrs. Dalloway. This is to become omniscient in a sense, new even to the novelist, but Mrs. Woolf does not hesitate at this daring step, puzzling at first to the reader, but soon accepted as a new and precious excitement.

"Every passer-by becomes transparent, and a shell-shock case tempts the recording angel into an excursus quite unconnected with Mrs. Dalloway. But the unities no longer need preserving; let us know, comprehend, be filled with emotions, wander at will, diverse, diffuse, so long as we get the thrill dispassionate, the silent drama of the individual soul. How the standard novelist will foam at the mouth over this aerien pageantry; but we are such stuff as dreams are made on, and the dreaming of these exquisite dreams has come to stay."