SOURCE: "Some French Writers of the Present Day: Paul Morand," in Taking the Literary Pulse: Psychological Studies of Life and Letters, George H. Doran Company, 1924, pp. 231-38.

In the following excerpt, Collins praises the verisimilitude of Morand's works Tendres Stocks, Ouvert la Nuit, and Fermé la Nuit.

Monsieur Paul Morand is not only a literary sign of the times in his country, he is a mirror of French mentality. He was more than thirty years old before he published anything and he had been a wanderer in the world. Both his maturity and wanderlust are reflected in his writing. He has no morbidity, no desire to shock, little inclination to instruct, but he has an uncontrollable urge to tell what he has thought, seen or done that he may please the reader and promote his own satisfaction.

"Novels are mirrors walking on a road; sometimes they reflect sunlight...