Waldo Frank's Dream.

The article focuses on the book "The Bridgeroom Cometh," by Waldo Frank. Frank's new novel is his most objective, mature and interesting one so far. To be sure, it displays, though to a reduced degree, his chief defects as a novelist. For one thing it redirects our attention to the truth that while Frank oftentimes is a gifted, vigorous and immensely thoughtful writer, to all appearances he is not a natural one. Frank may not be considered consistently endowed with taste. Again and what is more unfortunate, a human touch often is absent from his representations of the jazz age through which he moves his heroine. The feeling imparted by them still is somewhat harsh, infrequently compassionate: in the very face of the circumstance that miserable human and social disorders have existed in periods previous to the war and in post-war decades and doubtless will exist in epochs successive to our own.