Nichols (Ward Lock, London. 3/6) is a rather improbable story of the Jeffrey Farndl type. The period is that of Henry V's reign. It deals with a rather pointless ride all over England of Thomas Cleobury. For some unearthly reason he finds it necessary to take with him on his journey a rather witless young lady to whose only claim to interest is that she is the public hangman's daughter. It appears that he suspects her of spying on him, so, to be on the safe side, he takes her with him, giving her ample opportunity to report his movements and actions to her agents. The reason for his journey is rather Obscure. As far as I can gather his mission is to united various noblemen with the object of staging an uprising against King Henry. Owing to the complete lack of organizing ability possesses of friend Thomas and a number of Asia. rather unintelligent lords and gentles, the affair is a most hopeless fiasco. {|The author cleverly deludes the rear g the latter has time and patience enough to wade through the bock—into imagining that Thomas.|and his fair companion are going to fall into one another's arms in the last chapter. Not so, however—there is a rather attractive denouement on slavery or domination. ing at the inauguration of the American Legion memorial vault in the new Neuilly cemetery, Mr. Bullitt pointed to the German-made treaties of~Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest as evidence that unless American soldiers "fought as they fought, and if the war hadn't been won by the side which won it, the condition of mankind would be far worse than it is today."
"The men who lie here," he said, "fought in the hope that it might bring lasting peace to earth. Because there is not yet peace in the world, it has become the habit of many shallow minded critics to say their sacrifice was useless and to add that another Great War is inevitable.
"I believe both of these statements are profoundly untrue. It is a fact that good relations between all nations on earth, which American soldiers believed would 5e created at the close of the Great War, have not been created.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.