The Archive · 1928

Circulated Secretly

But meanwhile "Che Way of Sacrifite" was being secretly cir= culated in typewritten copies among the troops in the trenches. Again and again copies of it were seized and contineated. Tt was laboriously copied out by hand and again pose jwed from man to. man among soldiers who had come to their now trade with loathing. Not until the Revolution had put an end to Gore man militarism was it printed and published under the title of "Opter-gang."

The ordinary Englishman who, came through the war will here find few episodes to remind him of days he spent in the trenches 0 hind the lines, For Fritz von Unr those embroiled in it.

"The Way Sacrifice" is written not so much in terms of fiction ax in terms of the and alarming. And in spite of what often strikes me as a pretentious, somewhat hollow, manner, the book excites and repels. But it doy move. There is no human it—the G 8, one world gather frum it, never Ing made Jokes about the Teutonic lents of "Ole Bill" or "Plum. and-apple"—nothing but physical loathing. Fiven the weones in the repel heals; Like beasts being Te i tithe. wonder' Chat congested inthe ment dish Owing to the generosity of My. Gabriel Wells, the American dealer, the British Museum is now in poss session of a valuable manuscript of Carlyle's "Past and Present" which they would not otherwise have had, Two "Part and Present" MSS, we to be sold separately at Sotheby's One is the author's first draft, and the only complete literary manuscript of Carlyle's known to exist. The oiler fs the "printer's copy"—also cnggfttogeaph manuscript, though Tet quite complete, eet ro ang fan Sotheby's to ring up the Museum and it is now in their possession.", busines only."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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