“The book for the most part quotes authorities worth considering, and is modern in its attitude, but overestimates the theories of psycho-analysis, and is weakened by rather easy generalizations.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p9a Jl 4 ’20 90w The Times [London] Lit Sup p688 O 21 ’20 90w Wis Lib Bul 16:113 Je ’20 70w
FIFE, GEORGE BUCHANAN. Passing legions. il *$2 (2c) Macmillan 940.477
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“How the American Red cross met the American army in Great Britain, the gateway to France.” (Sub-title) The work of the Red cross commission in Great Britain was almost wholly with passing troops, on the way to the front or returning, and the aim of the author has been to bring out those features of the service which distinguished it from that of other commissions. Among the chapters are: A call through the storm; When the commission was born; Where a million men went by; The incoming legions at Liverpool; Here and there in Britain; The bluejackets of Cardiff and Plymouth; With the army to Archangel; The unbreakable link with “home.”
“Even now, books of the war continue to be written, and Mr Fife’s is among the distinctly lesser lights of the contest. He writes in a business-like but boresome monotone.”
+ − Boston Transcript p11 D 8 ’20 260w
“The opening story of the book is a story of heroism almost unbelievable, yet intense in its realism, pathos and altruism. Great as is the Otranto story, it but serves to fix the attention on what is to come and so onward to the ‘valedictory’ is read a succession of just such tales.” E. J. C.
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