Edwin Markham in _Hearst’s Magazine_: Will Levington Comfort, a
novelist of distinction, has given us a book alive with human interest,
with passionate sincerity, and with all the power of his despotism over
words. He has been a wandering foot--familiar with many strands; he
has known shame and sorrow and striving; he has won to serene heights.
He tells it all without vaunt, relating his experience to the large
meanings of life for all men, to the mystic currents behind life, out
of which we come, to whose great deep we return.
_12mo., Net, $1.25_
RED FLEECE
_Springfield Republican_: The first genuine war novel.
_Outlook_: The first novel of any real consequence dealing with the
great war.
_San Francisco Argonaut_: An extraordinary book. The reader of
Comfort’s book is carried away on a storm of emotion.
_New York Tribune_: Decidedly the first notable novel of the great war
is Will Levington Comfort’s _Red Fleece_. Comfort sees in the moujik’s
dreamy soul the seed of a spiritual regeneration of the world.
_The Dial_: As a stylist, Mr. Comfort has never done better work. “His
clothing smelled of death; and one morning before the smoke fell, he
watched the sun shining upon the smoke-clad hills. That moment the
thought held him that the pine-trees were immortal, and men just the
dung of the earth.” It is not given to many men to write such English
as that.
_Boston Transcript_: This is a story written in wireless. It leaves a
lightning impression.
_New York Times_: This novel has one most unusual fault. It is not long
enough.
_Churchman_, New York: By far the most interesting and thoughtful book
of fiction springing from the great war.
_12mo., Net, $1.25_
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
On page 123, side-ways has been changed to sideways.
On page 130, banknotes has been changed to bank-notes.
On page 310, waterfront has been changed to water-front.
On page 336, eyelids has been changed to eye-lids.
The name "Fomalhaut" was spelled multiple ways in this book; all have
been regularized to "Fomalhaut" (a star in the Southern Hemisphere.)
All other spelling, hyphenation and dialect has been retained as
typeset.
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