Show AN ENGLISH STORY The Thi Ked Hed Saint by Warwick Deep Deeping DeepIng DeepIng ing published by the House of Cas soll New York Some Som six sl years ago Warwick Deep DeepIng DeepIng Ing an English country doctor wrote the romantic novel noel Uther and I The artistic and popular sue suc success sueI toSS cess of this first book was so great that the author a was led to abandon the pro profession profession of medicine and devote himself to literature Since then several of his hili books have appeared and anti his crafts cratt craftsmanship manship has steadily Improved The i London Lindon critics have dealt kindly with I him on n the whole though they the have havo on occasions scolded him roundly But ni w his da has lIas jas come for his recently published romance romance The Red ned Saint has won for him the unstinted un tl ted praise 01 of 1 these English arbiters of literature Beyond praising the delightful style le leand and charming literary quality of this brilliant piece of work the unite in enthusiastic homage to the exceeding exceedingly ex eding ly iv welt ell devised plot the ro ron I n fiance mance arue alive with action and to the story st rj in which the reader may lose himself himel him eJ delightedly It must have bv b n a pleasant day Jay on the Sussex farm farmS S Ian Warwick Deeping read the three criticisms in which appeared the brief extracts quoted above The story stor has to do with the Barons wars dors The rhe stirring scenes revolve round about famous Battle Abby Abbey founded by William the Con Conqueror and the depository of the theD Dumsday D im Book This locality Deep DeepIng DeepIng Ing has hag known intimately for years for ht he h Ji lives S in a charming country home nearby In Sussex In that countryside countr the th very ery spirit of the olden days das still lingers lIngus if one but has the spiritual in insight Insight insight sight to divine it and doubtless It was the Influence of this environment which made it possible for the Imaginative and scholarly Deeping to so vividly re reIncarnate reincarnate reIncarnate Incarnate it all in The Red Saint And that is not the only on I factor that tha helps to set this tale apart from a fa familiar familiar type of romance The authors deep knowledge of what men and wom worn women women en really are was acquired red In a country c practice when he ministered to the bodies s and souls of men and women arid If a physician of the countryside does not know men they are unknowable unknowable able abl There is Ia not a type or a doll dollIn dollIn dollin In the th story Each of the many char characters chara a Is forcefully drawn dra n vital and human and through it all aiL the romance shines clear like burnished gold |