27 JUNE 1914, Page 41

A Traveller at Forty. By Theodore Dreiser. (Grant Richards. 12s.

(3d. net.)—This is a rather disappointing book. The author is a well-known American novelist of the neo- realistic school, and we expected that his first impressions of England and the Continent would have been more vivid and personal than they turn out to be. Mr. Dreiser WEB unfortunate to be under the guidance of the terrible speci- men of British Philistine whom he describes with so much affectionate detail. The ability of the novelist is shown in the sketch of the Barfteur household and social circle, but the rest of the book seldom rises above the commonplace.