The Promised Land. By Henrik Pontoppidan. Translated by Mrs. Edgar
Lucas. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—This is the sequel of a novel noticed in these columns a few months ago. Emmanuel, a Danish pastor, makes a sensation in his world, great out of all proportion to its cause, as it would seem to us, by marrying the daughter of a peasant. In this sequel he repents, and the couple separate, with the best of motives, as far at least as the wife is concerned. This is only one indication out of many that Scandinavian literature affords of a lax feeling about marriage. The story is so complicated by the intricacies of Danish politics that it is difficult to appreciate it properly. We should have thought the ending of the first fairly satisfactory, but it seems not to have estimated rightly the width of the gulf between classes.
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