POEMS: 1916-1918
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CAPTAIN SWING: A PLAY
By FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG AND W. EDWARD STIRLING
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Cousin Philip
MRS HUMPHRY WARD
Author of The War and Elizabeth, Missing, etc.
Cousin Philip is chiefly a study of the change which the war has brought about, on the modern girl and the relations of men and women. Helena, an orphan girl of great beauty and some wealth, has consented, to please her dying mother, to spend two years, from her 19th to her 21st birthday under the care of her guardian, Lord Buntingford, rather than go at once, as she herself wishes, to a University, in preparation for an independent life. She is headstrong, wilful, and clever; as keen intellectually as she is fond of dancing and flirting. Mrs Humphry Ward shows all her well-known skill in the handling of the subsequent situation, that skill which has made her books models of the novel writer’s art. Lord Buntingford’s modern yet chivalrous character, with his poetic personality, make him a charming figure. The dénouement is unexpected.
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