This second category is said to extend to all cases where an unfair advantage has been gained by an unconscientious use of power by a stronger party against a weaker : see the cases cited in Halsbury's Laws of England, 3rd ed ., vol . 17 ( 1956 ), p . 682 and, in Canada, " Morrison v Coast Finance Ltd " ( 1965 ) 55 D . L . R . ( 2d ) 710 and " Knupp v Bell " ( 1968 ) 67 D . L . R . ( 2d ) 256.
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The other pre-war novel was " The Prelude to Adventure " ( 1912 ), described by Walpole's biographer Elizabeth Steele as a murder mystery that attracted the interest of the psychologist Carl Jung . " The Observer " gave the book a favourable review : " The slow growth of the poison within [ Perrin ] is traced with wonderful skill and sympathy . . . one feels throughout these pages a sense of intolerable tension, of impending disaster "; " The Manchester Guardian " was less enthusiastic, praising the scene-setting but calling the story " an unconscientious melodrama " . " The San Francisco Chronicle " praised its " technical excellence, imagination and beauty Walpole at his best . " Arnold Bennett, a well-established novelist seventeen years Walpole's senior, admired the book, and befriended the young author, regularly chiding, encouraging, sometimes mocking him into improving his prose, characters and narratives.
