Citizens

THE author seems to be an ardent and convinced left-winger to whom a novel is a medium tor good fighting argument. It is the story of the Chicago steel strike of 1937 in which ten picketers were killed by the police. Sam Adams made a good use of the Boston ‘massacre,’and the proletarian novelists are doing nicely with the story of ‘ Little Steel.’ Mr. Levin might be a novelist of distinction. He has chosen to be a propagandist. As a result he distorts life to fit his theories. No novel can be a good one which is conceived and dedicated to that purpose. Citizens is not an exception to this rule.