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Nome, Alaska, September 25, 1 !)!<;.
A IIOOK KKVIKW.
There have been many books
■written about the Great War; books
by authors whose names have been
prominent for a long while in litera
ry cirel.es on two continents; books
by wise men and men not wise, de
striding, analyzing aiiu annus
tlie great bewilderment of the read
ers who perceived only the hazy
glamour of it all. But we have got
hold of another type of war book;
is written by Patrick MacGill or
the London Irish Regiment who
-achieved in the piping times ot
peace some fame as the realistic
author of the realistic story of “The
Children of the Dead End: The
Autobiography of a Navvy". The
navvy is the lowest caste of worker
tu 'he nation where the workers are
divided into caste, for he is the
stnlra who digs ditches, mends the
sewers and labors long and for lit
tle.
MacGill went through the cam
paign at Loos and calls his book
“The Great Push", and for sad real
ism nothing that so far has been
written reveals the life of the sold
iers in these days of Red Terror and
Black Misery. It is not a vain
glorious work, triumphing over a
fallen enemy and loudly magnifying
the deeds of prowess done by the
fighting men that face one another
today. There is not even a taint o!
hatred for the enemy; nothing but
sympathy and pity and disgust that
such things should be.
“The justice of the cause which
endeavors to achieve its object by
the murdering and maiming of man
kind is apt to be doubted by a man
who has come through a bayonet
charge”, say’s MacGill in his intro
duction, "the dead lying on the
field seem to ask ‘why has this been
done to us? Why have you done it,
brothers? What purpose has it
served?’ The battlefield is a secret
world, a world of curses. The
guilty secrecy of war is shrouded in
Jiqs, and shielded by bloodstained
»w$qtrds;, to know it you must be one
qf...those who wage, it, a party to
dark and mysterious orgies of car
riage War is the purge of repleted
kingdoms, needing a'close place for
VfiftR^.iona”. t
• when wdunded and the author
is awaiting his being taken to the
rf»r in an ambulance, he reveals his
own shocked view of things:
“Suddenly I was overcome with a
fit of laughter, and old Mac woke
up. ” ‘What the devil are you kick
ing up: such a row for?’ he grumb
led. ' ’ ” ‘ ” ’•
■ "Do you remember B—-—, the fel
low whose wound you dressed a
week ago? Bald as a trout, double
chin and a shrapnel wound in his
leg. ffe belonged to the - regi
ment”.
* “p remember him'’, said Mac.
"I knew him him in civil life 1
slid. “He kept a house of some
'repute in - The sons of the rich
came there secretly at night; the
poor couldn't afford to. Do you be
lieve that B- joined tl)e arniy in
order to redress the wrongs of viol
ated Belgium?”
. There, is very little patriotic brag
in the British army in France. There
is very little left of the "Rule Brit
annia” spirit.
"Bill maintains that the Army is
not an honourable institution. That
no man should joint it. If he knew
as much as he knows now. he would
never have come into it. I was say
mi: that—
"Oh you were talking through
yer ’at. That’s wot you were”, safd
Bill. “The harmy a place of honout
indeed! ’oo wants to join now? No
body as far as I can see. The mar
ried men say to the single men. You
go and fight, you slackers. We'll
stay at home;. we have our old
women to keep! Say in’ that the
swine”, said Bill angrily. “Them
thinkin’ that the single men ‘have
nothing to do but to go out and
fight for other men’s wives. Blimey!
that ain’t arf cheek.”
That doesn't alter the fact that
our case is just”, said Pryor ‘ The
Lord God of Hosts is with us yet,
and the church says that all men
should fight—except the clergy
men.”
“And why shouldn't them parsons
llglli , as tvcu uni. i nc» say vxu, aun
God Bless you, to us. and then they
won't fight themselves. It against
the laws of God, they sa\. If we
'ad all the clergymen, all the M. P’s
the Kaiser, and Crown Prince,
Krupp and von Kluok ancl all these
‘ere blokes wot tel! us to fight in
these ‘ere trenches for n week, t he
war would come to an end, tfry
sudden.”
The patriotism of the militarist is
not for the soldier in tlie trenches:
“A strategic retreat’ said Pryor. “I
never ran so quickly in all my life.
I suppose it is like this every night,
men working between the lines, eng
ineers building entanglements, cov
ering parties sleeping out their
watch, listening patrols and souv
enir hunters doing their little bit
in their own particular way. It’s
a funny way of conducting war . . .
We have no particular hatred for
the men across the way. My God,
the trenches tone a man’s temper.
When 1 was at home (Pryor had
just had ten days furlough) our
drawing room bristled with hatred
of some being named the Ilun. Good
Heavens you should hear the men
past military age revile the Hun. If
they were out here they couldn’t be
kept from getting over the top to
have a smack at them. And the
women! If they were here, they
would simply tear the Germans to
pieces. I believe that we are the
wrong men, we able bodied youths
with even tempers. It is the men
past military age who should be out
here .... I once read a poem, a
most fiery piece of work, and it
urged all men to take part in the
\ war, get a gun and get off to Fland
ers immediately. Shame on those
who did not go! The fellow who
wrote that is a bit of a literary
swell, and I looked up his name in
"Who’s Who”, and I find that he is
a year or two above military age.
If I were a man of seventy and
could pick up fury enough to write
that poem, I’d be off to the recruit
ing agent the moment the last line
was penned, and I’d tell the most
damnable lies to be off and have a
smack at the Huns. But that swell
hasn’t enlisted yet.And
never will.
The war boosters come in for
their share of mockery at the hands
of the soldiers:
I’Anything about the war in that
paper Bill?” some one asked.
“Nuthin much”, Bill answered.
"The Bishop of - says it’s a ‘oly
war .... Blimey, he’s talkin’
through his ’at. ’Oly indeed, 'Oly
‘ell. D'ye mind when he came out
here, this ere Bishop, and told us
he carried messages from our wives
and fathers and mothers. If I was
a married bloke I’d have ast him
wot he meant by takin’ messages
from my old woman.”
“You interpreted the good man’s
remarks literally,” said Pryor, ‘That
was wrong.‘Ere’s somethin'
about parsons in this paper. One
is asking if a man in ‘Oly Oorders
should take up arms or not.”
“Of course not”, said Pryor,
"If the parsons take up arms who’ll
comfort the women at home when
we’re gone?
“The slackers will comfort them.
I’ve a great respect for the slackers.
They will marry our sweethearts
when we are dead.”
It is in the ability to describe
the horrors of this war, the dead,
the dying and the misery, the suffer
ing, the mutilation, the decay and
loathsome conditions on the battlet
fields that MacGill excels. It is
written as no neutral correspondent
has allowed himself to write. It
goes beyond suggestion for his pen
draws pictures as live and real and
errible as a motion picture. Men
blasted in the space of a breathing
while, men torn into shapeless
forms who a moment ago had been
making merry over some wanton
jest, cries for succour, for reliet,
for death above all that would put
a period to the agonies.
It is a book that gives the lie to
those miserable frauds who find a
glory in war and a greatness in con
quest. It smashes to atoms the atro
cious theories of the militarist and
with a master hand unveils what
war is and what it will always be.
“The shell burst and the wounded
and dead rose slowly into air to a
height of six or seven yards, and
dropped slowly again looking for
all the world like puppets worked
by wires.
“This”, said the wounded com
pany postman who had observed
the incident, “is a solution of a
question which diplomacy could not
settle, I suppose. The last argument
of kings is a damned sorry busi
ness”.
Will they think so after the
war?
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