The Trespasser, Complete

"The Trespasser" by Gilbert Parker captures the impingement of the outer life of England's far dominions, through individual character, upon the complicated, traditional, orderly life of England. The author was commissioned to write this book by the Publisher due to his sense produced by the contact of the outer life with a refined, and perhaps overrefined, and sensitive, not to say meticulous, civilisation, is always more sensational than the touch of the representative of "the thousand years" with the wide, loosely organized free life of what is still somewhat hesitatingly called the Colonies, though the same remark could be applied to all new lands, such as the United States. The representative of the older life makes no signs or makes little collision at any rate when he touches the new social organisms of the outer circle.