THE BELFRY

"The Belfry" is a fine novel written in sprightly, journalistic style. The events lead up to the scenes of The Great War (WWI).

But here the War is only incidental: it is pulled in at the end, none too ceremoniously, to solve a few marital difficulties. "The Belfry" has a most queer hero, a most unsympathetic heroine. He is a successful little author, half genius, half bounder, and she a large and square jawed daughter of cathedral upbringing who has begun by loving his genius and come to de...