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This list has been selected from the suggestions of the nine librarian advisers of the Atlantic; it will be sent with our compliments to committees and members of reading clubs and other interested persons. Requests should be addressed to the Editor of the Bookshelf, Atlantic Monthly, 8 Arlington Street, Boston (17), Mass. Swan Song, by John Galsworthy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1928. 12mo. 360 pp. $2.50. 'SOAMES FORSYTE is dead!' So readers will exclaim who have followed the fortunes of the Forsyte family from The Man of Property through In Chancery, To Let, The White Monkey, and The Silver Spoon, to reach their pathetic conclusion in this novel. And they will feel a kind of homesickness to think that no longer will they be able to trace new threads in the history of the ten children of 'superior Dossett' and of their children to the third generation: Old Jolyon and Young Jolyon, Irene, Holly, Val, Jon, Fleur, and the rest. Looked at in retrospect, the Forsyte saga is an astonishing accomplishment, probably unexcelled in scope, variety, and interest since the Comédie Humaine. Steadily and with almost unflagging genius, Mr. Galsworthy has unfolded the history of this hard-headed race, whose motto might have been 'Thatte I please I wylle,' like the writer of a symphony, developing his two themes of Property and Beauty or Freedom, in a thousand variations. The two themes are epitomized in the stories of Soames and Irene: poor Soames, whose tragedy, as the author once said, is the 'very simple, uncontrollable tragedy of being unlovable,' and Irene, who is a 'concretion of disturbing Beauty impinging on possessive world.' a In Swan Song, Soames wins the reader's love at last, I think, even though Fleur, whom he worries over like a hen with one chick, cannot until the very end 'love him as he thinks he ought to be loved.' 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