August 14, 1915 
LAND AND WATER 
BOOKS OF THE WEEK 
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of minutia, the author completes the first half of his book. 
It should then be finished. But it is not. The process 
continues for another 200 odd closely packed pages. 
But it must not be supposed that Mr. Marshall's book 
is merely tedious. His method is tedious. His shining 
talent is undiscoverable. But he has the virtue of taking 
people who are absolutely real, and of reporting them cor- 
rectly. And in this case he has done what he has not always 
done, he has chosen an interesting allocation of persons. 
This vulgar financial potentate, with his vulgar wife and his 
discerning son, people belonging properly to London suburbs, 
described accurately and as they really are, are set down 
among county gentlemen of the old landowning class, also 
described to the hfe — this modern association of " rank and 
riches " presents a real situation, has a real interest. Much 
of the book has the effect of agreeable satire. 
"Hyssop: A Novel." 
(Constable.) 65. 
By M. T. H. Sadler. 
The novel of undergraduate life has moved far from the 
classical example of " Verdant Green." In the hands of 
young writers like Mr. Compton Mackenzie, Mr. John Palmer, 
and Mr. Michael Sadler it has become more realistic and more 
ps}*chological ; it treats the first phase of the problem of 
the modern man in modem society. In Mr. Sadler's novel 
of Oxford we must not look for accounts of bump-suppers, 
" brekker " parties, lively escapades, etc., as of things 
interesting in themselves ; if these things occur we shall 
understand that they are recorded as sjTnptoms, indicating 
various stages in a young man's development. The author 
has written this novel to illustrate a view of the " sex problem"; 
and he has put the scene in Oxford partly because he knows 
Oxford better than most other centres of life, partly because 
the undergraduate is at a time of hfe when the sex problem 
becomes exceedingly urgent. 
It is a book of quite unusual promise. There is the stir 
of a crowd of young men moving in and out of College rooms, 
young men each neatly described in a paragraph of clever 
characterisation. There are conversations and conversations 
— the tea-time flippancies, the midnight tearing to pieces of 
eternal inchoate ideas. Here are all the fashions and fads 
of Oxford, infinitely various and ever the same ; the levity 
and the earnestness ; the sentimentalism, though not quite 
enough of the reserve, of young (EngUsh) men. Through 
all this runs the undercurrent of the sex question, the chief 
exponent of which is a youth called Laddie. Laddie maintains 
— and the author endeavours to prove his point — that the 
real hypocrites of to-day are not the old-fashioned Puritans, 
but the " men of the world," the " good fellows " or " dogs " 
who impose the lightest of codes on men and an adamantine 
code on " nice women." 
Mr. Sadler's faults are those of inexperience and technique. 
He has introduced such a crowd of persons that we do not 
get to know any of them, with the possible exception of 
Laddie and a very cleverly drawn parson, his father. The 
drift of the plot is so vague that there is not a sufficient 
demand on the attention. The catastrophe of the flower- 
girl is melodramatic and unreal. But these are very largely 
faults of inexperience. Very young men, as a sage of an- 
tiquity has told us, are apt to be carried away by abstractions. 
Mr. Sadler's book is vivacious and full of ideas. 
"The Great Unrest." 
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By P. E. Mills Young. 
" The struggle was the outcome of the unrest of the age : 
he recognised that . . . the great unrest in the blood. He 
felt it stirring in his own — the love of violence, of violent 
emotions — a sort of instinctive revolt against the estabhshed 
order of things." Thus writes Miss Mills Young of her hero 
and of the last years before the War. She has chosen for her 
hero a young man of restless and impressionable temperament. 
She tells the story of his life during his early adolescence in 
England. She takes him out to South Africa, to Johannesburg, 
where he writes for a Socialist paper, and goes through the 
exciting incidents of the great strike of 1914. But the author 
is more concerned to show his feverish development on the 
personal and more intimate side. He has unsatisfactory 
love affairs, and is involved in a quarrel with an infuriated 
husband. Finally he returns to England, marries the desirable 
lady, and enlists in Kitchener's Army. 
Miss Young has considerable skill in telling a story m a 
simple and straightforward style. The character of the hero 
is portrayed with energy and imagination, and there is no 
little subtlety in the rendering of two at least of the women. 
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