Produced by Susan Skinner, Peter Vachuska, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net WAITING FOR DAYLIGHT * * * * * _BOOKS BY H. M. TOMLINSON_ THE SEA AND THE JUNGLE OLD JUNK LONDON RIVER WAITING FOR DAYLIGHT * * * * * THE FIRST PRINTING OF THIS BOOK CONSISTS OF TWENTY-ONE HUNDRED COPIES, OF WHICH TWO THOUSAND ARE FOR SALE. THIS IS NUMBER 669 * * * * * WAITING FOR DAYLIGHT By H. M. TOMLINSON NEW YORK . ALFRED . A . KNOPF . MCMXXII * * * * * COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc. _Published May, 1922_ _Set up, electrotyped and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y._ _Paper furnished by Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons, New York, N. Y._ _Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York, N. Y._ MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA * * * * * To MY WIFE * * * * * CONTENTS I. IN YPRES 3 II. A RAID NIGHT 12 III. ISLANDS 24 IV. TRAVEL BOOKS 28 V. SIGNS OF SPRING 31 VI. PROSE WRITING 36 VII. THE MODERN MIND 40 VIII. MAGAZINES 44 IX. THE MARNE 49 X. CARLYLE 56 XI. HOLIDAY READING 58 XII. AN AUTUMN MORNING 65 XIII. NEWS FROM THE FRONT 74 XIV. AUTHORS AND SOLDIERS 80 XV. WAITING FOR DAYLIGHT 88 XVI. THE NOBODIES 96 XVII. BOOKWORMS 112 XVIII. SAILOR LANGUAGE 115 XIX. ILLUSIONS 120 XX. FIGURE-HEADS 127 XXI. ECONOMICS 133 XXII. OLD SUNLIGHT 135 XXIII. RUSKIN 140 XXIV. THE REWARD OF VIRTUE 147 XXV. GREAT STATESMEN 149 XXVI. JOY 152 XXVII. THE REAL THING 162 XXVIII. LITERARY CRITICS 170 XXIX. THE SOUTH DOWNS 175