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MOWAT, ROBERT BALMAIN. Henry V. il *$3.50 Houghton 942.04
“Henry V in his day was held to be the pattern of a chivalrous knight: round his name has centred the romance of medieval England; in his person Shakespeare found already expressed the glory of the Elizabethan age, the symbol of our national aspirations. The character of Henry V has many of the faults but all the virtues of his time; ... his kindness and good fellowship; his bravery and sense of justice; his unremitting industry; his piety.” (Chapter I) Among the contents are: The legendary and the real Henry; The French war; The conquest of Normandy; The treaty of Troyes; The work and character of Henry V. The book is illustrated and has an appendix, a bibliography and an index. An earlier edition of this work appeared in 1915.
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“It is natural in such a biography rather to emphasize the heroic, and within the limits of his space Mr Mowat has given us a very readable and on the whole accurate history. But space would not permit the writer to add much that is new.” C. L. Kingsford
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Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
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“Mr Mowat has written a good book, which should be widely read. He has very rightly relied in the main upon the chief French and English chronicles and biographies, and has avoided the tendency, rather too common just now, to pick out erudite and often irrelevant detail from half-read sources.”