28 APRIL 1923, Page 23

The Garland. By Sigrid lJndset. (Gyldendal. 78. 6cL)

This is not so interesting as many of the recent translations from the Scandinavian tongues. It is an historical romance of a type already quite familiar to the English reader, and now somewhat &mode. Corresponding in the period treated roughly with The Pretenders, it has none of Ibsen's largeness of theme. The character-drawing is neither of the vast nor yet of the shrewd and penetrating kind, but is somewhat romantic and slight, and the general effect is increased by the depressing Wardour-Street English into which it is translated. The plot is an unconscionable long time a-developing.