SOURCE: "A Superb Tale Teller," in The Bookman, London, Vol. LXXVI, No. 451, April, 1929, pp. 36-7.

In this review of Silver Circus, Warren praises Coppard's perceptive portrayal of peasant characters. The critic also finds the book to be proof of Coppard's continuing development as a writer.

Mr. Coppard's tales made their first appearance shortly after the War. They obtained a hearing, shyly, almost furtively, in progressive periodicals with a very limited circulation. They were not proclaimed upon the housetops. A few discerning ones smiled, added the precious copies to their collections, and passed the good news on to others. Here was a man doing something new; here was a man who could give significance to an art that in England anyway was a kind of Cinderella among her sisters; here was a man for whom words still had something of the dew of the morning upon them. But the...