Show Var ar Story Is Earnest and Realistic A Ii war nove novel Cicely Hamiltons Hamilton's excellent ex ox- story William an Englishman English English- nan man tells of or what happened to a 1 couple two perfectly commonplace commonplace com corn middle class people who I a L u cau caught r h 4 h ht in the I II forward rushing forward v. v rushing u I a L u cau r h 4 h v. v u tide of or the world war William Tull Tully Tally was a a. London clerk an n undersized Ignorant conscientious well meaning little m man man n whose life for several years before the tho war had been devoted to what he ho called service and tho the cause of ot the th social revolution Under the Influence of ot his friend Faraday whose opinions he ho accepted without question lie ho had become a a. socialist an Internationalist internationalist Inter Inter- nationalist a pacifist and so ISO on given to the making of ot J inflammatory speeches He attended meetings advocating advocating ad ad- civil war when tho the civil civi warriors complained with bitterness bitterne that the other othe side hit them back and it was at one of ot these teo meetings that he ho first met Griselda Griselda who went out window smashing in a a. picture batand hat bat and cultivated ladylike charm Sho She was wa a piece of ot minded blank suburban young womanhood caught Inthe in tho the militant suffrage movement and enjoying herself herel therein The They were attracted to each other from rom the first and were ideal Ideal mates Both believed in a 3 large vague ague and beautifully undefined un un- un- un defined identity called caled b by William the People and by Griselda Woman and nd both believed that it was suite Impossible impossible impossible sible for tor any person to disagree with their views and be even way half way hal honest honest hon boa est or decent They Tey were married in July 1914 and very happy and very ver much in love went to spend their honeymoon in a cottage In the Forest Forestor of or Ardennes In Belgium where they received no leter letters or newspapers And Ad there tho the war caught them them and they who had prated glibly about battles battes and ho who had regarded a soldier as a a target at whom strikers threw brickbats brickbats brick brick- bats and bottles bottes with energy an and practical Immunity found themselves alone atone and helpless In tn the hands of or the Hun They saw the shooting of ot hostages hostages host host- ages they were ere beaten and kicked and and abused William Wliam was forced to work ork like a slave but as a's fate tate was wa infinitely worse than his The Te book is earnest eest realistic an and very vcr well wel written tho the emotional and dramatic portions of or it getting a real hold on the readers reader's Imagination It Itis Itis I is an unpretentious volume and a very vent moving v very n. n interesting one the account account account ac ac- ac- ac count of Williams William's Wilam's unexpected and unintended unintended un un- un- un intended outburst at the pacifist meetIng meet meet- Ing Ins being particularly effective There Thore Williams and are arc plenty of ot ad In this country countr who out of ot the completeness com corn of ot their I Ignorance regard themselves as competent to solve all nn the problems which have perplexed mankind since the Pharaohs reigned ned over Egypt Egypt and t nd and long before Fe Fred Fred Frederick erick A. A A Stokes Co Co New ew York |