Show e Glowing slowing i- i Account of the Crusades Given by Harold lt Lamb Inspiring History of Pilgrimage to Holy Land Related Harold Lamb Transports Readers Read Reali ers to Days of Chivalry By BRUCE C CATTON Europe was gripped d by the tha deepest deepest deep deep- est night night Barbaric ignorant nt kings and barons lived in Iii great draughty castles with dirt floors protecting and amid oppre oppressing the ml miserable serfs who ilni made up the bulk of tho the pop pop- J Ignorance norance lay upon the time continent like lIko an Immovable pall Most people passed their entire lives hives within ten miles o of their birthplaces and neither m knew nor cared what went on in tim the outside world Then suddenly a n. strange new movement mO ran through tho the continent conti conti- nent neat Knights and barons took sword wor and lance Janco and rodo romlo nw away y to tho thio unpredictable cn east t. t Men Men-at- aln arms 3 clanked Blanked after aUe them and a horde o of serfs Is armed with clubs chubs and amid pikes pike Women and children trailed trolled In the rear The Time rabble of tho the great cities clUes followed after arter A tremendous world shaking pilgrimage was under under un un- der way way WIY-lL a pilgrimage that had no maps to Its Us way that was Wal lured on by a 3 bright ideal that wadId waded wad wad- ed Id waist deep in blood and destruction destruction tion and gave history one ono o of its most colossal colos al pageants ot or nil all time lime I Tho The stor story of the crusades has an nn Inexhaustible fascination There is isho no ho other othel stor story quite like liko IL It And Am Harold Lamb In Tho Crusaders h issued ud by Doran has given this story a a. magnificent re re- re telling In Here hero Is a a. book that thal will keep you ou up ill nights md und tran transport you OU back out of or tho the twentieth century to the days o of aJr chivalry Mr Ir Lamb thank heaven H has not tried to go so modern on out us He lie Is Isn't nt out to debunk time the crusaders Some clover clever young ou oun intellectual will try that one o or of days dB's you ioui ma may bo be sure ure In Instead Instead In- In stead he lie makes you ou understand how howIt howit It Jt WH nac that a whole continent could be lifted up b by a glittering Ideal Ideal- and ho proves after aeter making all due allowances for jou more material motives mo mo- tives U that this ideal idal was just as strong tron and moving a force as ns wo have o always supposed I dont don't see ho how Tho Time Crusa Crusaders ers cnn lun fall fail to appeal to you ou no matter what your our tastes in literature ure ar are Tho rime volume Is tho the March larch selectIon election of or tho tim the of club And md if lC the tho publishers when they como come to the time second edition will only stick a few maps maims in the book will viii willbo bo be perfect NEA |