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VIGILS - Siegfried Sassoon - Viking ($1.50). Of the British poets whom the War sent over the top, Siegfried Sassoon is one of the few survivors. As an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers he served with such absent-minded gallantry that he was awarded the Military Cross, was recommended for the D. S. O. Then in 1917, because he considered that the War had degenerated into a senseless slaughter, he published a public protest, "in wilful defiance of military authority." Because he was a war-hero he was not court-martialed but hushed away into a mental hospital. The front line...
Readers close this book of meditative, resigned verse wondering whether Siegfried Sassoon had once been shell-shocked into poetry...
...jolly apologias emitted from time to time by U. S. foxy grandpas. Latest view-halloo was sounded by Harry Twyford Peters, Master of the Meadow Brook Hounds. Written primarily of and for the manure set, Just Hunting is not to be mentioned in the same breath with Siegfried Sassoon's masterly Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, but even to readers who have never seen the world from the vantage of horseback it presents an easily comprehended view...
...over the face of the British Empire . . . hated by his former followers and ignored by his Tory colleagues." Winston Churchill, Sir Samuel Hoare, George V, Montagu Norman are less sensational exhibits in the British tent. But before the British Intelligence Service, the Marquess of Reading and Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon. who shifted a fortune of 85 million dollars Mex. to China to escape high taxes, the author pauses, describing their exploits with a shudder not entirely justified by his facts. Stating that conservatives now "have control of the British Intelligence Service, Unofficial Observer propagates an E. Phillips Oppenheim theory...
...unknown soldier. Their grisly finds make a pile of evidence more terribly impressive (though more ephemeral) than any neat, white, euphemistic cenotaph to the glorious dead. Austria's Andreas Latzko (Men in War), France's Henri Barbusse (Le Feu), England's C. E. Montague (Disenchantment), Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer), Robert Graves (Goodbye to All That), Germany's Fritz von Unruh (Way of Sacrifice), Erich Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), Arnold Zweig (The Case of Sergeant Grischa), Franz Werfel (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh), America's John Dos Passes (Three...