James Joyce

MR. GORMAN always writes carefully and well. In this book his pen is energized by admiring friendship and a devout belief that Mr. Joyce is a great literary artist. Hence his subject is made as attractive as it can be made. Nevertheless the book remains one for the initiate and the devotee rather than for the general reader who is less interested in Mr. Joyce and less impressed by his literary quality. A tew things, perhaps fortunately, must be left to the judgment of posterity, and Mr. Joyce’s work is one of them; and by consequence so also is the actual weight of Mr. Gorman’s book.