Mr. Dewar begins his epic as a Virgilian scholar should, with an invocation of Arms and the Man, or in modern language, Man and the Machine. As to which was mightier in the struggle, man or machine, he strikes the balance lof commonsense, never forgetting that the machine is after all Jy a manifestation of man. The title page is adorned with a quotation from Much <Ado-About Nothing;" Captain Dugald Dalgetty has a word to say in the matter of tin-hate, and George Eliot is consulted on the position of Labour. The pleasant flavour of literary allusion adds a charm to the most technical discussion.
Nor is "The Great Munition Feat" lacking in the adornment of a sense of humour. The exigencies of war led to strange changes of trade.
'A Court jeweller became a maker +f optical instruments; a cream separator maker—primers; a gramophone maker—fuses; a lead-pencil maker—shrapnel; a paper-maker—trench and aeroplane bombs; a cloth factory—hand grenades; a gas geyser maker—aeroplane tanks; a yacht builder—seaplanes; a firework firm—hand grenades; a church decorator—aireraft glaries; a wire netting maker—complete aeroplanes except the engines; a boot and shoe machine maker—gun mountings; water meter factory—fuses; window frame makers—shells (150,000 ay week); well sinkers—trench and aeroplane bombs; siphon maker—fuses; sheep-shearing firm—shells. It is a pity Lewis Carroll had not such sources to draw from whilst he was writing ''Alice in Wonderland," or "The crusade had its broad comic side 2 well as its tragic.
the uutnor makes an eloquent defence of british Labour uuripg the War and its marvellous acuievement, in the present time ress and growing pessumuson It 18 well to ye reminded of te heartenimg "sense Of human brvuernvud" wich prevailed both at tne front and at home during the years of the war.
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