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The longing for beauty, for opportunity, for an unknown realm where aspiration may be gratified, is the key to the title of Winston Churchill's latest novel, "The Dwelling Place of Light." In both plot and background there is a strong suggestion of the great Lawrence strike, and its leading characters are Claude Ditmar, manager of a huge mill property and Janet Bumpus, one of his stenographers. The Bumpuses are of old New England stock, though Janet's father lacking energy and initiative to fill such a place in the world as the forbears over whose genealogies he broodsis now a gatekeeper at one of the mills, and his family live on a street almost given over to foreigners. Janet herself is of the self-reliant, individualistic type, with an innate fastidiousness and refinement which supply the place of education. In striking contrast is her sister Lise, a cheap, showy girl, whose experiences are constantly running parallel to Janet's along a lower level. The seething life of the great city is pictured in painstaking detail, and the chapters on the strike are all the more effective, perhaps, because the writer does not bestow his sympathy definitely on either side. Indeed, his attitude from beginning to end is singularly non-committal and if the story has a "purpose," not every

reader will discover it. Less discussion will be roused by this book than by some of its predecessors, but Mr. Churchill has written nothing of more sustained and varied interest. The pictures of Andover-thinly disguised as Silliston and of the eccentric but charming author who buys one of its old houses and restores it by his own carpentry, will give special pleasure to many. The Macmillan Co.

Readers of Frances Wilson Huard's "My Home in the Field of Honor" will remember her story of her return

to her Château de Villiers, sixty miles northeast of Paris, after the great retreat, when she found it pillaged and polluted in every conceivable way by the German officers who had occupied it; and they will welcome and read with intense interest her second book, "My Home in the Field of Mercy" (George H. Doran Co.), in which she describes the transformation of the château into a hospital, in which she and her attendants ministered to scores of sick and wounded French soldiers. There was no form of service or manual labor in which she did not share, and all that she did for the men under her care met with a quick and grateful response. Her experiences were the most interesting because her wards were all of the peasant class, and she was brought more nearly to the heart of the French people through the opportunity which she had to study the men of whom she writes: "In all the long dreary months during which hundreds of these humble, uncouth peasants who ranged from eighteen to fifty years of age, came and went from my home; mid their sufferings and joys, I never heard a vulgar oath, an unkind word, and yet I knew that with us they felt they were under no restraint." Neither did she hear any boastful recital of personal experience, for, although many of them wore medals of honor, they never spoke of what they had done or seen. They were always lighthearted, always ready to sing at every opportunity, always confident of ultimate victory for their country. Madame Huard individualizes them with piquant personal details. Her narrative reaches a climax of interest in the closing chapters, in which she describes her journey to Soissons in quest of tobacco for her wards-a quest which brings her under German shell fire. There are twelve illustrations from exquisite drawings by the author's husband, Charles Huard.

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