SOURCE: A review of A Song for Harps, in The Times Literary Supplement, Vol. 35, No. 1805, September 5, 1936, p. 711.

In the following review, the critic praises the complexity of March's skill as a writer, but laments the bleakness of his vision.

It has been said of Mr. March that he seems to write with all his senses where most novelists write with one; and it is certainly some such quality of wide awareness as the statement implies that gives his work much of its compulsive power. Whatever one makes of his new novel as a whole, the sensation of life, rendered in its fine particularity of detail, is undeniable. Whether he describes a person or a scene, a movement or a thought, the thing is instantly clear before one.

So evident is this ability that one regrets the more to see it directed in some respects so narrowly and, in...