“Before the war the author was known as a sportsman, traveller, and athlete. It is his other vocation, that of writer, which helps him not merely to give us information, but to give it in a form enthralling as any detective story.”
+ Ath p816 Je 18 ’20 180w
“Written in a style that makes it pleasantly acceptable to the general reader.”
+ N Y Evening Post p12 N 27 ’20 220w
“His book is fascinating in its records of romantic individual tales and of cunning camouflage which are intended for the general reader, but we trust that the military authorities will not on this account overlook it. Major Hesketh-Prichard has a contribution to make to military science.”
+ Spec 124:728 My 29 ’20 280w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p293 My 13 ’20 900w
PRISONER of Pentonville, by “Red Band.” *$1.50 Putnam 821
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Poems written while the author was confined in Pentonville prison in London, between September, 1917, and May, 1918. They are written in varying meters and on different themes. Many are addressed to his wife, one is written on receiving news of his mother’s death, others recall scenes from boyhood, and one that brings to mind “Reading gaol” is written the day of an execution. The concluding poems record his sentiments as release approaches and there is an epilogue written after regaining liberty. Joseph Fort Newton, formerly of the City Temple, London, now of the Church of the divine paternity, New York, writes a foreword.