"Henry James once said of the author that he was ’saturated’ with youth, and in this story Walpole idealizes the triumph of the youth of the new generation that breaks the cords that bind it to the old and starts out for itself--a careful, coherent and brilliant study."--_St. Louis Globe-Democrat_. "This is a splendid study, the love story is charming and altogether the book is an exceptionally good piece of work."--_The New York Tribune_. "In _The Green Mirror_ Hugh Walpole shows his masterly skill in building up a really dramatic novel out of plot material that is almost without action. His crises are always crises of feeling and no one equals Mr. Walpole in his analysis of the feeling of his characters and his exposition of their motives, development and change."--_Cincinnati Enquirer_. "_The Green Mirror_ will serve further to intensify the belief that Mr. Walpole is one of the great novelists of the time. The reviewer does not hesitate to proclaim the conviction that he will be the greatest novelist of his generation who uses English as the medium of his expression."--_Providence Journal_. "Mr. Walpole has written a most unusual story and has handled it in an exceedingly capable manner. His plot is so out of the ordinary and is so well worked out that _The Green Mirror_ may well be classed as an exceptional novel and as such is likely to rank high among the fiction of the present years."--_Brooklyn Daily Eagle_. "As a picture of contemporary life, the novel contains some elements that are as fundamental as those which make Dickens characters of old London real flesh and blood to readers of today. As a study in motives animating society the book is worthy the best traditions of English literature. _The Green Mirror_ is a distinct contribution to literature."--_Detroit News Tribune_. "_The Green Mirror_ has not one touch of aniline in all its warm colors, rich presences and faithful portraiture. It is a fine novel, grappling bravely with the great ironies of mother-love."--_New Republic_. "In the development and disclosure of the essential and incidental scenes of the domestic embroilment following upon disclosure of the central situation Walpole vindicates his title to the primacy in the ranks of British fictionists who have undertaken to represent imaginatively the source, spirit and outcome of insularity translated in terms of selfishness and family pride. It is life transcribed as inexorable and fatalistic as _Fortitude_ and _Duchess of Wrexe_."--_Philadelphia North American_. FORTITUDE The novel which first introduced Walpole to America was _Fortitude_, that most beautiful, most strong story of a man’s fight against heredity and circumstance for mastery over himself. The theme of the book lies in a saying of the Cornish fisherman, old Frosted Moses: "’Tisn’t life that matters, but the courage you bring to it."