Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-11 | Page 8 | Hugh Walpole Comes Friday

Hugh Walpole Comes Friday The Captives Is one of the novels that Hugh Walpole English novelist who will lecture In the Assembly hall ball Friday evening c considers his greatest great great- est eat It was published in 1920 The noIle Il e scene no lies in tg Cornwall and 1 in London f The heroine 1 Maggie P plain Imf of f face heavy footed vy untaught t tP in mind d df and body Is yet the bravest of the brave Her mind is Is' clear cut commonsense irradiated by shining idealism It Is a sad book but Us Its movement Is Isso isso so splendid that hat one never wearies says a critic lc t Fortitude is another of I his great- great ov J ii m Walpole's first novel the Wooden Horse was published when he was 16 years old He was then silent for ten years before following with his second book Maradick 1 at Forty which had a finely finished plan and Is rich in ip humor In it appears the first touch of that mystic reading of life lIte which runs through so many of ot his later books From then on followed nine more books of which The Tho Cathedral is 18 the last and perhaps most exquisite In histories of literature Walpole's Wa works work are re divided into novels ro roI ro- ro mances short stories and belles- belles I letters