Although these stories are never explicitly didactic, they are ethically as well as artistically true. Beneath the surface of light conversation and trivial incident we find an idea that works for righteousness. This idea is so variously and so frequently illustrated that I think it must be the foundation of the author's philosophy of life and conduct. He would have us believe that different individuals, different social classes, different communities dislike and distrust each other mainly through ignorance. He would not say in the old phrase, to understand is to forgive, he would say something without any taint of condescension, something finer and more fruitful--to understand is to respect, to admire, to love. The inefficient aristocrat and the pushing millionaire despise each other, the haughty Churchman and the pious Dissenter distrust each other's motives until they are brought by the force of circumstances into an unescapable daily intimacy; the result of which to both is surprising and agreeable. Apparently what we all need is more imagination, more intelligence. These novels make a combined attack on the last infirmity of both noble and ignoble minds, that last citadel of stupidity--Prejudice. BIBLIOGRAPHY English publication American Peter Binney, Undergraduate 1899 .... The House of Merrilees 1905 1905 Richard Baldock 1906 1918 Exton Manor 1907 1908 Many Junes 1908 1919 The Squire's Daughter 1909 1912 The Eldest Son 1911 1911 Sunny Australia (_sketches of travel_) 1911 .... The Mystery of Redmarsh Farm 1912 .... The Honour of the Clintons 1913 1913 The Terrors (_short stories_) 1913 .... The Greatest of These (Roding Rectory) 1914 1914 The Old Order Changeth (Rank and Riches) 1915 1915 Upsidonia 1915 1917 Watermeads 1916 1916 Abington Abbey 1917 1917 The Graftons 1918 1918 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Archibald Marshall, a Realistic Novelist, by William Lyon Phelps