SOURCE: Hinkson, H. A. “A Good Bag.” Bookman 48 (September 1915): 172-73.

In the following excerpt, Hinkson is impressed by the portrayal of Irish life by Somerville and Ross in In Mr. Knox's Country.

We are informed by the gifted authors of In Mr. Knox's Country that the book was written before the war. And we are glad that it was, for it is hardly possible that even such light-hearted gaiety and buoyant humour as the authors possess in so remarkable a degree should not otherwise have suffered some sort of eclipse, owing to the terrible events of the past year. So, grateful as we are for the works which preceded, we are doubly grateful for their latest successor, which is like a ray of sunshine illumining a dark and terrifying world. And it is Irish readers, who know and love their country and their country-folk, so often misrepresented by...