Excerpt from One Man's View

But in such honest dating, and in the inferences we may draw from it, lie perhaps some of the peculiar merits of Mr. Merrick's method - his straight telling of a tale. And digging to the heart of the book, the One Man's View of his faithless wife - more importantly too, the wife's view of herself - is, in a sense, an historic view. Not, of course, in its human essentials. Those must be true or false of this man and this woman Whenever, however they lived and suffered. Such suffer ings are dateless. And whether they are truly or falsely told, let the reader judge. No preface-writer need pre-judge for him. For in such things, the teller of the tale, from the heart of his subject, speaks straight to the heart and conscience of his audience, and will succeed or fail by no measurable virtue of style or wit, but by the truth that is in him, by how much of it they are open to receive.

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