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December 7, 1940.
THE DEBACLE
"The Last Days of
rat." By H. G. Wells. thought, and enjoyed some Paris," By Alexander (Secker And Warburg, barbed gibes at the world Werth. (Hamish Hamil-
in deluge and the Petains ton. 88. 6d. net.) who wallow so complacently,
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MR. H. G. WELLS, in its waters.
glancing⠀⠀ grimly
skywards at the shape of Things to Come, has written us another one' of his pungent little
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E. B.
THE SOLDIER
POET
The moral collapse of a community must, always be a poignant affair, when seen from outside. And that is what the French tragedy seems to amount to, as we follow it through the win- dow of Mr. Werth's diary.
The war had never been look- ed in the face by the public-
"The Swan Of Usk." tracts for the times. By Helen Ashton (Col-
In "All Aboard for lins, 98.).. Ararat" he presents a new version of Noah and his "THE SWAN OF USK" because the censorship would not permit it. It had been is Henry Vaughan, studied only perfunctorily by Ark. But this is a twentieth- 17th-century poet and mys- the generals, and by the politi century Noah, and the Ark tic. (You'll remember he clans it had been used mainly as
that he builds is intended to
по
a factor in the everlasting game save the best of mankind wrote "My soul, there is a
of in-and-out. Hence, when the country.")
crash came, defeatism had from deluge of war and ter- rorism and Nazism.
He was born in a manor difficulty in flooding the general house in the Welsh marches mind.
Mr. Werth's record begins The new Noah has some in 1622, the elder by ten min- with the invasion of Holland, wise and witty and Wellsian utes of his twin brother, and sees him safely (though for conversation with the God Thomas.
from comfortably) transported
of the Old Testament, and He went to Oxford, fought from Bordeaux to England, the inevitable question has for King Charles, became a Every page of it agitates and to be thrashed out what is doctor, married successively hurts. There is no sense of any bracing element. There may worth saving?
two sisters and had several be gallantry at the front, but, The new Noah works it children.
for the rest, the whole nation all out. The text, slogan, Beyond these bare facts, seems crumbling away together. spiritual motive for the little is known about brave new world after the with the result, that Deluge is:
Ashton's. 300-odd sketch mainly the ground of his times
"Something quintes
sential for the elite and something very strong and clear and simple for the masses of mankind.”
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becomes tenfold more vivid in New Deal for mankind. So, But one can't help wishing the light of these events than gradually, does Noah. she'd given us more about when it was published forty
The little book ends Henry Vaughan, the immor- years ago.
But Mr. Werth's book will vaguely in the air. "But not tal poet, and less about before you have been stimu- Henry Vaughan, the rather always hold its ground as e lated to some new lines of undistinguished soldier.
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