SOURCE: "The Face of the World," in Johan Bojer: The Man and His Works by Carl Gad, translated by Elizabeth Jelliffe MacIntire, Moffat, Yard and Company, 1920, pp. 247-55.

Cabell was an American journalist and fiction writer. In the following essay, he offers a favorable review of The Face of the World.

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What Johan Bojer planned to make The Face of the World there is no way of telling. But as the volume stands it is a very handsome piece of irony; and its main character in particular is "rendered" in such a manner that all readers of this book will (I believe) remember Harold Mark for a long while, with (I sincerely trust) unuttered sentiments.

This Harold Mark the reader encounters as a newly graduated Norwegian doctor, contentedly married, and temporarily established in Paris, where his wife, Thora, is vaguely studying "art" at the Louvre and thereabouts...