Show SEI SEREIN EIS PILLARS OF 11 WISDOM PLEASES PLEASIA G at the delta library Is the book seven pillars of wisdom by T E lawrence a graduate of oxford and better known as lawrence ot of arab la 1 lawrence Is a wonderfully poign poian nt writer facile easy direct and wery choice in expression which Is sometimes so boiled down that it must be reread slowly to get the au thor a viewpoint at other times so ralpd and so entrancingly interest ing tug as to carry the reader with a glow the revolt in the desert Is the same book shortened with much of the tactical elements of warfare 0 bitted and for a better underhand under sand ing of seven pillars ot of wisdom should be read first by so doing many of the difficult parts and the strategy are more easily understood the chapter where he blows up the turkish train in the world war Is so vivid that the reader Is right on the spot in the fighting sharing its hazard the outcome and thrilled with the rapidity of action law rence Is a master of words and a writer not for the moment buti q fp cpr F decades the book should live it Is not without its high points of humor an arab a fa worrior warrior and a terrible fight er was so wrapped up in the arab cause that he took his turkish made false beeh out and pounded them on a rock exclaiming vehemently god forbid that I 1 eat my food with turk ish aid he ile pounded them to es viciously and ands went gummer until the british could get an ailed set made tor for him the raids carry the reader along in each action when an engine Is blown up and havoc is wrought with the tat tat tat of machine guns playing staccato as the tyrannous turks are worsted at succeeding turns the reader rejoin es as lawrence fumbles at the big bridge in the gorge and retires un der tire fire an ignominious failure the reader sorrows but the dismal rout that time Is made up Is later ter with interest and again the reader is so carried along as to live each scene the metaphysics in the book tend to make it uninteresting in that por per tion as we cant can t get into the mind of the man who went native he is full of arab thought their deac eions directness and certainly knew shiek life in the desbert in the original book several chang es were mad against the stupidity from lawrence Lawren ces a viewpoint of the british but these are expurgated in this volume and an empty space left shows that what he said is with drawn from the public but in the 0 original volume tor for the british strat st rat egy board to get the pith of the death of tallas who rides in to the turkish tire fire after he had seen the terrible butchery rapine mur der of even children in bis his own home town Is a chapter that Is not sur passed in many writings as pure lit One cannot read it without strongest emotions being awakened As a wartime volume this book Is not lacking in vividness interest and rapid action the mastery of words and phrases is a constant de light when the last great triumph comes when turkey crumples up when terrible auda slays to hia his glut the reader sees the fleeing turks being cut down shot and so routed that damascus is taken seven pillars Is indeed a book a book which will last a book 1 that time will preserve to the honor of its author it Is not such a book as one wants to idle away a dull ev nine ening on but to be chewed and di ill it is solid reading but good |