Abstract

Books in Brief

The article presents information on various books. Titles and names of some books that are mentioned in the article are "The Little Dog Laughed," by Leonard Merrick, "A Patriot's Progress," related by Henry Williamson and drawn by William Kermode and "Red Snow," by F. Wright Moxley. "The Patriot's Progress" is a fine war book. It is the story of a young English private who might well have been named Everysoldier. The does not show the inner life of the character John Bullock in those respects wherein he differed from his fellows, but one recognize him at once because he typifies his fellows. The reader follows Everysoldier from the time he joins up with high hopes and inflamed spirits on through his terrible ordeals and into the Valley of the Shadow of agony to his emergence, crippled, forever handicapped. The story is short, graphic, and haunting.