Show A DISAPPOINTING BOOK The flue life and letters of General James Wolfe y in a anew anew anew new edition is just published lie He is the soldier that stole stoic up Ill the heights n advanced upon the thie plains plains- ill of Abraham defeated Montcalm and won Quebec and Canada to the British empire lIe He died in the hour o of victory ry Montcalm i died in in the hour of defeat and ad their names llam s are arc linked together inseparably This book says that Wolfe V entered the British army at 13 became a lieutenant at 14 and was i when his last battle hattle was fought Reading the thc review of his life and letters we think it would h have e been better had the book never been pub pub- lishe Time rime has drawn a halo around his hils memory an and in mens men's thoughts he was as not only a hero but a hero endowed with all the he grace of the thc chivalry of the the middle middle ages The rHe reading ealing of his letters is a sad disillusion disillusion- ment uncut lIe He was wa no doubt a brave and capable sol sol- Lid diet hut but of tf the gentler grace grale in which I the he thoughts oi men h hc c clothed him lim alas for him the they were all borrowed borron robes He lie was of that old school of oi British British Brit Brit- ish officers of whom General Braddock was a fair sample Braddock had a contempt for George Washington and rushed to death because he would accept no advice from the countr country soldier The rite letters letters letters let let- 01 of V Wolfe Tolfe o Ire speak with horror of the thc In Indians ians with utter disdain and contempt of the French Canadians Ca Ca- and in in a similar strain of Abercrombie and his soldiers an and he lie shines out in his own letters as asan asan asan an insufferable egotist and whenever cr his heart is revealed revealed re re- ie is almost alwa always s 's tinged with cruelty It was bad judgment that ever cyer prompted the pU publication publication li- li cation o of his letters |