The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

NOT until 1933, not until hard times had impelled readers to escape into pages of wise and gentle irony, not until the publication of his One More Spring, did Robert Nathan come into that appreciation which should have been accorded to his earlier work. In other words, he passed through fourteen years of apprenticeship and neglect, which, sad to say, is the lot of too many imaginative writers to-day.