Abstract

The War from the Rear

This article presents information on two books, "The Flying Teuton," by Alice Brown and "Professor Latimer's Progress: A Novel of Contemporaneous Adventure." There are special qualities in Brown's work which belong, to an order that is passing or already past. One is a moral quality, an intense absorption in life as an ethical as well as a spiritual feat, the other is a "literary" quality, a refined and slightly bookish savor. Both are qualities of the old New England, the old Boston so honestly revered, not long ago, by all true-born Americans, and already lapsing into a slightly quaint memory. The war has produced no book like "Professor Latimer's Progress," with its sanative masculine of deep feeling, fluid intelligence, and heart-easing mirth. It rises like a modest, kindly beacon amidst the flood of belligerent documents that flow back from the front and of impassioned commentaries that well up in the rear.