Some Every-Day Folks

Mr. Eden Phillpotts does not belie his reputation as one of the most promising of our younger novelists in his Some Every-Day Folks." Taking little people and little interests as his theme and a little country town as his locale, he has succeeded in weaving a narrative of sustained interest without calling to his aid any more exciting incident than an affray with poachers. If the characters are everyday folks and commonplace types we at any rate feel that they are alive and not mere dummy creations of the novelist's brain. Miss Deane, the heroine, or rather central figure, around whose love-story the loose thread of the narrative gradually centres, should perhaps be given a fuller and more sympathetic introduction in the early part of the story. As a piece of quiet unforced humour we have not read anything for a long time better than the conversation between Major Bird, retired and dependent on half-pay, and his resourceful wife on the subject of the dinner-party to be given in honour of the new Squire. - The Westminster Review, Volume 143 [1895]


Genre: General Fiction