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To those still alive who were young (or youngish) men and women in 1883, when The Story of an African Farm was first published, the impact of that remarkable book will probably never fade from memory. It opened up an entirely new vista in regard to background, types of character presented, and its passionate atmosphere.
Some of those early readers will be glad, I think, that the centenary of her birth (24 March, 1854) has been celebrated by the B.B.C. and by a crowded and successful meeting of the literary club, P.E.N., and by a new book published 24 March, 1954, by Daisy Hobman, containing much research and new light on the strange and tragic character of Olive Schreiner.
The small book here reviewed is written with insight, much sympathy and restraint. The author, obviously, has made some study of psycho-analytic theory, and in her section entitled 'Latent Meanings', after a sketch of Olive Schreiner's childhood and girlhood and the beginning of her writing career, she goes on to apply some of her psycho-analytical knowledge. One of the important things