Somehow good

Something immediately happens, happens before we have any idea of the real character of the agents and before we hardly know where we are.

Indeed, the first chapter of Somehow Good may serve as an artistic model for the commencement of a novel.

It is written with extraordinary vivacity and spirit.

But the author understands better how to begin his works than he does how to end them.

The close of Joseph Vance is like the mouth of the Mississippi, running off into the open sea through a great variety of passages.

The ending of Alice for Short is accomplished only by notes, comment, and citations.

And Somehow Good is simply snipped off when it might conceivably have proceeded on its way.

His fourth novel is the only one that ends as well as it begins.

Something immediately happens, happens before we have any idea of the real character of the agents and before we hardly know where we are.

Indeed, the first chapter of Somehow Good may serve as an artistic model for the commencement of a novel.

It is written with extraordinary vivacity and spirit.

But the author understands better how to begin his works than he does how to end them.

The close of Joseph Vance is like the mouth of the Mississippi, running off into the open sea through a great variety of passages.

The ending of Alice for Short is accomplished only by notes, comment, and citations.

And Somehow Good is simply snipped off when it might conceivably have proceeded on its way.

His fourth novel is the only one that ends as well as it begins.