SOURCE: "Fiction Harvest," in The Southern Review, Louisiana State University, Vol. II, No. 2, Autumn, 1936, pp. 399-418.

In the following excerpt, Ransom praises the emotional power of Strange Glory but contends that Myers's overly abstract prose impedes his attempt to evoke a credible mysticism.

Mr. L. H. Myers, British author of the highly regarded trilogy, The Root and the Flower, writes with very great distinction but [is] … in search of a religion. [In Strange Glory] Mr. Myers' … writing is fastidious and economical …, yet his emotional effects are disproportionately massive. The narrative pattern would stand out from any array of novels for its concision. A beautiful and sensitive American heiress, quite like Henry James' Isabel Archer, is launched into European society, which is corrupt, and presently has gone all the gaits and smashed up; she has married an English lord and been divorced for cause. She is not damaged beyond...