Private Road

In this, the companion volume to his earlier autobiographical Apostate (1926), Forrest Reid continues his ''chronicle of a prolonged personal adventure''. Private Road (first published in 1940) offers Reid''s descriptions of his early writing efforts; a youthful correspondence with Henry James that began with promise yet ended disappointingly (''the Master was not pleased...''); his Cambridge encounters with such luminaries as Ronald Firbank and W.B. Yeats; the production and reception of his first published works; and his valued friendships with E.M. Forster and Walter de la Mare. The closing stages of the book reflect Reid''s unique sense of the spiritual: a compelling meditation on our ''second life'' in a place Reid calls ''dreamland'', wherein a ''shadowy agent'' conjures an atmosphere that can hold powerful inspirational properties for the artist.

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