+ − World Tomorrow 3:158 My ’20 750w
FRANKAU, GILBERT. Peter Jameson. *$2 (1½c) Knopf
20–3796
A story of the war—of the “great cleansing.” Peter Jameson at the outset of the story is a business man, of somewhat the American type. He is married to an admirable wife, father of two little daughters, and in every way successful and satisfied. At its beginning he is not greatly stirred by the war, but the end of three months finds him in it. The story thereafter follows his fortunes and scenes at the front alternate with homecomings to Patricia. He is twice wounded and is finally invalided home with shell shock, from which he is saved by Patricia’s care. A real love awakens between husband and wife and the story comes to a triumphant end on Armistice day, 1918.
“We find ourselves wishing that he had kept his talent in a napkin rather than put it to such uses.”
− Ath p241 F 20 ’20 1000w
“The scenes of English country life in the last part are a pleasant offset to the earlier war pictures.”
+ Booklist 16:312 Je ’20 + Boston Transcript p10 My 1 ’20 880w
“‘Peter Jameson’ is in keeping with the newest invention in novel-writing the thesis that four years of slaughter in France purifies all Englishmen.”