SOURCE: A review of Caravan, in The New Statesman, Vol. XXV, No. 628, May 9, 1925, p. 106.

In the following review, Kennedy offers a generally positive review of Galsworthy 's Caravan but contends that "a golden mediocrity honeys and mitigates all his achievement. "

But two birds haunt the heights of Parnassus—not, as some have fabled, the eagle and the dove, but the phoenix and the ibis: the phoenix, lonely in eminence:

that self-begotten bird,
 In the Arabian woods imbost,
 That no second knows nor third;

and the ibis, which, as everybody remembers, is safest in the middle. There is a paradox about each of them. By the phoenix one does not mean a single literal supremacy, such as might be claimed for Shakespeare: one means the supreme quality which, wherever it is met, stands out as lord and beacon of its kind. One meets it more often in Shakespeare than...