The Willing Horse: A Novel

THE WILLING HORSE
A Novel
IAN HAY
AUTHOR OF A MAN'S MAN, A SAFETY MATCH, THE RIGHT STUFF, THE FIRST HUNDRED THOUSAND, ETC.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1921
COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY IAN HAY BEITH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
H. M. B.
TO THE READER
One is informed that novels touching upon the war are no longer read. This, if true, reduces the novelist to the following alternatives:
(1) Writing a novel of some period of the world's history antecedent to the year nineteen-fourteen. This is undoubtedly a wide field—the Christian era alone covers twenty centuries—but it has been cultivated by several writers already.
(2) Writing a post-war novel in which it is assumed that the war never happened. This would make it rather difficult to know what to do with the graves of our dead.