Tord Wester-Wemyss, c.ce. Hodder and Stoughton. 16s. net, Some extracts from Lord Wester-
Wemyss's spirited narrative of] the Dardanelles campaign have already appeared in serial from. Our readers, however, will do} well to read' the evmplete chronic cle of one of the most wonderful the episodes in the history of warfare. That its purpose was not achieved was no fault of the officers and men engaged in the conflict. Lord Wester-Wemyss indicates plainly enough that the causes of the failure resi. ed in an unhappy combination of counsels ut home. was tersely defined very reminiscent of Mr. Jingle.
"Thomas Hardy's pessimism is very far removed indeed from the general undefined attitude of mental gloominess that always looks on the dark side of things,' ox, as Dr. Garwood picturesquely expresses it, sees only the hole, and not the} doughnut.' The above sentence is from Mx, Ernest Brennec!
"Thomas Hardy's Universe" (Fisher 'Unwin, 8s, 6d.), This is a very interesting "attempt to explain the philosophy of the great novelist. Mr, Brennecke finds a spiritual affinity between 'Thomas Hardy ind Schopenhauer, both of them prophets of the' Immanent Will. He quotes a good deal from the works of both writers and his con ment is shrewd and suggestive. Mr. Brennecke's final word is illuminate ing 'Hardy's basic optimism, paradoxieal as that expression' must sound to his superficial readers and exit ies, may best be observed in his underlying humanity, in the ground-tone of pity that sounds through all his work no Joss than it does through the philosophy of Schopenhauer, and the feeling, in which he is again in harmony with the great philosopher of the Will, that man's sveatest enemy is man!"
Routledge "to add to their Broadway Translations "Bandello's Tragieal Tales," translated Geoffrey Fenton in 1567, with Introduction by. Robert" Langton Dougton Douglas, The whole edited with a glossary by Hugh Harris, B.
The version is. reprinted. complete, and unchanged with modernisspelling from the first edition The stories of Bandello had the profoundest influence on the England of Elizabeth's day. He was a for Tower of Boccuecio and n forerunner of our first great English novelist Defoe, From his stories Shakespare drew the plots of "Hamlet," "Romeo and ality" ete. mist ice on the Peninsula to bury the dead: while it was going on a Turkish officer strolled up our lines and found a chap la reading the service over a large grave. When it was finished, he took off his fez, looked down into the grave and' said in a loud voice: "God bless all true soldiers
clans." trid "eternally "damn all" polish In November, 1915, Lord Wester-'Wemyss proposed to the War Cou wame by which, as he belie believes, Straits and keep them open.
Other influences prevailed, and the evacuation was ordered, It is possible that the adverse decision was a mistake of the first magnitude. Lord Wes Wemyss does the justice to A miral Sir Berkeley Milne which the politicians denied to that officer. Te] was carefully id from_ the public that as Lord Wester-Wemyss records:
When six wacks after the asassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand—an event universally ded as the signal for the: outbreak of hostilities—war was declared, the British Ambassador at Constantinople was absent from his post and the Embassy apparently as unaware of the negotiations going on during the July' crisis between Germany and the Young Turk party, as of the Hance between the two States signed on August £. To this ignorance must be attributed the escape of the Goeben and Breslau.
Apart from the political and strategical aspects of the campaign, it was distinguished by exploits of heroism and endurance second to none, and of these immortal dools Lord Wester-Wemyss gives a manlike account of a profound terest. It is amphibious war seo, from within,
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