"Cimuy Dawx—Reo Nions."—By James Tanndate Medsen. Garden Citst Fioubledsy, Devon & No. Shanghai!
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After the hard liquor of Richard Aldington, Robert Graves and Tomlinson, Mr. Hodson's novel of England at peace and at war is Likely to taste Tike slightly watered Yee. As a piece of reporting it a whole, creditable anous people and events are described clearly and occasionally with vigour, and some of the vignettes will undieudtedly make neat pieces for the ust mosaic of the human side of the war which is being created today. But the book lacks that in-Scrming attitude, that aura of persenalits, which lifts such works as '"Goud-bye to All That" and. the Ford tetralogy out of the ruck of war books and puts them in the plane of literature, The Looks is largely autcbiographical, beginning with the hero's Yeyhood in a suburb of Manchester the thank end of Vietoria's reign fend ending with the blood bath of the Somme. The first half of the took, which deals with John Hard: castle's echod days and adolescent Lurst of creativeness og a journalist, is full of realistic detail which fails fo produce an impression of fullyovnded personality. Hardcastle re-ing merely the conventional tri young reporter, My. Hod:
his Hest in his treatment of land: he is euccessfui ug the rough give and take ning camp life among the Jnbourers, clerks and public sehocl yur, who went into Englands civilian ery. The part which From the Jachet design of "Red Willows,
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