Ditte : Towards the Stars. By Martin Andersen Nexii. (Heinemann.
is. fid.) Ditte : Towards the Stars. By Martin Andersen Nexii. (Heinemann. is. fid.) This is the third and last phase of the life of Ditte, the Bona Dea, almost, of Poverty : the story of her struggle to live, after the death of Georg, and at the same time to support the two little waifs Peter and Anna, her own baby, the • Paul Redway. By G. A. Paley, London: Grant Richards. [is, ed.]
Congratulator, Old Rasmussen, the Ragpicker, and half the tenement in which she dwini the death of little Peter, the devotion of Karl, and final'y Ditte's own death from a life of uninterrupted hardship. As a detached and accurate study of extreme poverty, not vitiated by any obvious weighting of the dice against the sufferers, suggesting no easy panacea, neither optimistic nor pessimistic, but accurate, and moving with a perpetually suppressed vitality, it is an effective work.
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