The pelicans

“The solid accomplishment of Miss Delafield’s three novels establishes her as a figure of actual literary importance. Writing, from her first published sentence to the ending phrase of The Pelicans, with a delicate mastery and finish, she expresses her witty and forceful personality with the utmost clearness.

Zella Sees Herself, The War Workers, and The Pelicans offer to honest and intelligent people an enjoyment of what are recognized as really high traits of creative literature together with a pervading amusement and lively interest sustained from paragraph to paragraph and from novel to novel. Miss Delafield is a valuable addition to the number of writers, always small, whose books ornament equally the drawing-room table and the preference of undisturbed private hours.”