The Young Physician is the history of the formative years of a boy who, after leaving one of our public schools, decides more from force of circumstances than from inclination to enter the medical profession. Side-light is thrown upon our educational system in the first part of the book, which is devoted to home and school life; while in the second, the impressions and experiences which went to the moulding of his character are presented side by side with a picture of student life at the Midland Hospital where he pursues his medical curriculum. The success of such a book lies no less in its truth to life than its ability to entertain the reader, both of which conditions are fulfilled in Major Brett Young’s new novel where, once again, the author breaks entirely new ground.
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New Wine
AGNES and EGERTON CASTLE
The authors of Rose of the World and of Minniglen take an unsophisticated, high-spirited young man from peasant surroundings on the west coast of Ireland and plunge him in the whirl of fashionable English life—the unexpected inheritor of affluence and honours. It is the ‘new wine’ put into ‘old bottles.’ There is strong romance in the story, although the scenes and the characters are literally up-to-date. The drama, however, is throughout essentially one of the soul—that of a generous, heady youth confronted by passionate problems and ignorant of worldly conventions.
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The Plain Girl’s Tale
H. H. BASHFORD
The Plain Girl’s Tale, by H. H. Bashford, is the longest novel that the author of The Corner of Harley Street has yet written, and the first that he has produced since the publication of Pity the Poor Blind, six years ago. Though dealing with the adventures and development of a girl of the artisan class in various spheres of contemporary life, it stands apart from the war and is in no sense merely topical. In the delineation of the central character, through whose eyes most of the action of the novel is seen, the author has endeavoured to expand the ethical theme that was the basis of his previous novel.
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