+ N Y Times p26 S 26 ’20 1000w
“Colonel Ward’s narrative makes a vivid and fascinating picture of stirring events and gives throughout the impression of keen observation and sincerity.”
+ Review 3:532 D 1 ’20 1500w
“There is nothing small about this book. The countries he traversed, the observations he made, and the cause he worked for, all convey a sense of space and sanity, which no niggling pen could have produced. There is no delicate tracery of outlines here, no precious selection of words to convey an atmosphere and the genial author does not deal in suggestions and impressions, but relies almost entirely on forthright facts.”
+ Sat R 129:306 Mr 27 ’20 850w
“Colonel Ward’s account is very welcome because it is obviously honest and sincere.”
+ Spec 124:389 Mr 20 ’20 1300w The Times [London] Lit Sup p183 Mr 18 ’20 1150w
WARD, MARY AUGUSTA (ARNOLD) (MRS HUMPHRY WARD). Harvest. il *$2 (2½c) Dodd
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When Rachel Henderson took the Great End farm near Ipscombe to lead an independent life as a woman farmer, she had had a past in Canada. She had been married to a worthless man, had lost her child, had been divorced and—more than that—when fleeing from her husband’s cruelty, had succumbed to the sympathy and protection of Dick Tanner, a neighboring farmer, and had stayed with him for three days and nights. When, in the course of events at Great End farm, she becomes engaged to a young American captain, from a near-by camp, still guarding her secret, she faces a spiritual struggle. After all the confessions are made and the lover also has achieved a victory over his time honored prejudices, a bullet from the former, now hate-crazed husband, kills her in her lover’s arms.