Life — June 20, 1918 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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A monthly trial subscription by mail anywhere in the world for 75¢; a sample copy on request. THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING SOCIETY BOSTON U.S.A. Sole publishers of all authorized Christian Science literature The Latest Books (Continued from page 1003) First and the Last,” he is seen at his best in the lesser réle. In the second story, “The Stoic” (in which it may be noted that an equally complicated and dramatic situation is actually pres- ent), he performs the miracle of “creation” before our eyes. T is over three years since our old friend “Q”—Sir Arthur T. Quiller- Couch—has called on us with a story. Those of us who read, and_ still recall with enjoyment, his “True Til- da” will remember his delightful abili- ty, on occasion, first to create a character and then to keep it supplied with original and provocative situa- tions. And lovers of a good story will find the same combination of sound character sense and rollicking humor happily co-operating in his new tale of “Foe-Farrell” (Macmillan, $1.50)—a yarn spun in the trenches in France by a soldier who had been closely affiliated with the participants in the grimly laughable vendetta between the men whose names form the title of the book. LAYING hoth ends again$t the middle” is a familiar though haz- ardous form of generalship in roulette, at the races and on Wall Street. So far as we know, Gilbert Cannan is the first to try it in literature. In 1013 his “Round the Corner” made him known to American readers. Three years later his “ Three Sons and a Mother” brought him still more definitely to our notice as one of the leaders of the younger and uncompromisingly honest students of life and character in Eng- land. 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