Booklist 17:13 O ’20
“Altogether, a most helpful little book, suggestive and with good references for further study.”
+ Survey 44:308 My 29 ’20 120w
HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.). Letters of Donald Hankey. il *$2.50 Revell
20–4805
These human documents, as letters by the author of “A student in arms” can be called, are published as a tribute of love to one who sleeps in France. The introduction and notes are by Edward Miller, whose glowing picture of a loving personality adds an interest to the letters which, although written for the most part to his family and intimate friends, “run up and down the whole gamut of life.” Here and there are pen and ink sketches reproduced from the letters and charming features of the book are several facsimile letters to nephew and niece. Contents: The subaltern, 1904–1906; The undergraduate, 1907–1910; The traveller, July 1910–July 1912; The emigrant 1912–13; One of the immortal hundred thousand, 1914–1916.
+ Ath p1354 D 12 ’19 90w + Booklist 16:278 My ’20 Nation [London] 26:866 Mr 20 ’20 1300w + Outlook 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 160w R of Rs 61:559 My ’20 80w
“Let us say at once that the first impression on the reader is that Hankey in his letters falls below the high literary inspiration which he displays in a ‘Student in arms.’ Yet the letters if they do not on the surface display the same quality as the essays, reveal when carefully studied a nature free, noble, and humane, combined with a truthfulness deeply impressive from its singular intensity.”
+ − Spec 123:860 D 20 ’19 1900w