out Ore ame Man"—By CB, Wontague, London' Chatto and Windus. Price, 176
Mr. Montague set on to give usa His neighbouring repub-lice of Ria and Porto seemed at the outset just pygmy generalizations of the States of Europe, When the financial intrigues of a capitalistic group, with a stake in either repubfic, succeed in bringing them to farms, all the familiar psychology of fever at once infects the sh population of Ri of a week the only paper thi stood out, not being entirely eon trolled bythe warmongers, has given say and is howling with the pack, So far Mr. Montague treads familiar ground. But suddenly gripped by the sheer possibilities of his story, and in a series of pien Jaidly-written chapters gives his satire a new and Unexpected twi The Rian army is overwhelmed in the defiles of the mountains that separate Ria from Porto, and alone little force of a thousand men escape, under cover of darkness and '8 fall'of snow, into an unmapped valley, while the Portan army pushes past them to lay siege to the capital of Ria. The account of the fighting has been marvellously real, tut the pure romance of the sue: ceeding chapters holds an enchant-Ing surprise, Thereafter, Mr, Montfague, in an exciting and dramatic lending, touches a plane of Teal tragedy, in which the note of irony is distinct without being obtrusive, Thus, the book gathers itself to. a Gne climax, and, brilliantly as the earlier chapters are done, it is for swift and unexpected development that it is chiefly remarkable Air. Mongtague: has given us nothing better than, this, "encom story.
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