Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/disenchantment00mont Transcriber's note: Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). DISENCHANTMENT by CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE New York Brentano's Publishers 1922 _To_ AUBREY MONTAGUE OF LAUTOKA, FIJI "We twa hae paidlet i' the burn" CONTENTS I. The Vision 1 II. Misgiving 16 III. At Agincourt and Ypres 35 IV. Tedium 62 V. The Sheep that were not Fed 84 VI. 'Ware Politicians 103 VII. "Can't Believe a Word" 114 VIII. The Duty of Lying 127 IX. Autumn Comes 157 X. Autumn Tints in Chivalry 173 XI. Stars in their Courses 189 XII. Belated Boons 205 XIII. The Old Age of the War 219 XIV. Our Moderate Satanists 232 XV. Any Cure? 252 XVI. Fair warning 266 CHAPTER I THE VISION I Now that most of our men in the prime of life have been in the army we seem to be in for a goodly literature of disappointment. All the ungifted young people came back from the war to tell us that they were "fed up." That was their ailment, in outline. The gifted ones are now coming down to detail. They say that a web has been woven over the sky, or that something or other has made a goblin of the sun--about as full details of a pain as you can fairly expect a gifted person to give, although he really may feel it.