Small marks on book jacket folds Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961 book club edition, 722 pages A Modern Comedy might be called the saga of the younger Forsytes, for it gives the history of the younger generation of that family as superbly as The Forsyte Saga gives the history of their elders. The pages of A Modern Comedy- a trilogy consisting of The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon, and Swan Song - belong primarily to Soames Forsyte's daughter Fleur, her husband Michael Mont, and her cousin and former lover, Jon Forsyte. Their passions reverberate through the trilogy, and in Swan Song the situations foreshadowed in the earlier pages come to an inevitable and tremendous climax. In creating the many extraordinary members of the Forsyte family, Galsworthy also drew a fascinating and detailed picture of the British propertied class from the wealth and security of the mid-Victorian era to a post-World War I world of change, strikes, and social malaise. By showing the Forsytes in all their strengths and weaknesses, triumphs and failings, against a detailed background of English life-Parliament, the Courts, the City, sports, philanthropy, art, war-John Galsworthy succeeded in making A Modern Comedy, as he did The Forsyte Saga, valuable social history as well. as great fiction.