A certain out-moded, contempt for able-bodied "conshies" marred my complete enjoyment of "The Faithful Lovers", by J.D. Beresford (Ifutchinson, London, 7/6). At a time. when, most of us wore feeling, and Rupert Brooke was writing:
Now, God be thanked Who matched Nis with Lis hour, And caught on Youth, and wakened us irom looping Bryan Davys, the young and hefty belo, was busy digging himself munition factory, <A. Royal 'Academy. portrait of General Sir Edward Verhayne is up to Burlington House standards, and a pastel of his daughter Shirley' is rather attrac tive Nota great novel; but 9 pleasant example of Mr, Boresford's Undisputed eraltsmanship. The per feet piness of the title renders any. description of the plot superfluous.
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