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Servce l. THE BOOKS TOM *lY THE BOOKS TOM lENTý 1724 OWrngton Avenue OMnlgtom HoeI Sidg. Gr*. 0227 die for, a cause. Miss Roberts shows that beroism does not beiong only to patages but that there are today great nunibeiss of Young peo'ple Who hope si n- .cerely to rigbit the wrongs of. our pres- ent-day civilization. Neil Jordan, an American, attends the University of Chicago, where,:be meets Peter Monticb, a young Serbian, ideal- istic and revolutionary. Mofiticb, en- raged at the fascist tendencies in bis own country, had decided to corne to, America, take training in social service, and return to'Serbia in the lippe of aid- ing and teaching the downtrodden pea-. -antte manduiwnrkers. He beconies see Apt accolint .-of tihe pogress, of science ip» its combat againist death and diseaie is presented accrirately arnd in,. p.,#*'waiin itvIdebyPaul, *ost onle ot e ietiuqlDa These letters, covering the period from 1920 to 1926 wben M~iss iloltby was in her twenties, were written to a friend in South Africa. In, .tbem she gave le'Ws of affairs* in England,, ofý those. unsettled post-war years witb al their social problems-.and.polJtical ex- periments. Tbey are. rich in Iaugbte; inwhat Miss Holtby herseif called "that uncommon sense, a sense of humor"; in a compassioflate lovre of people; and in an interest. in every aspect Of lîfe. Wben tbey open, Miss Holtby is- stîli. at Oxford, a student deeply mnàtured by. ber experience with tbe Women's Atrmy Auxiîiary corps in-France during the War. In 19212 she came bo London to live and work with- Vera Brittain. ,%hé. had been ber friend at Oxford. We.sec her making her name as a writer, travel- he is' reluctant to return to his nai land, Monti cb, bowever, 'bas no money no future, and feeling tbat .a marri witb Nancy is impossible and tbat re-non,eidiitv tn1is country îs too gr sity students, stage a demonstrati against the visit of a fascist diplornat riot ensues, and M-\ontich is fatal wounded. His friends lose faitb wi their leader gone, and surrender tot police. Tbey are ail, including NE imprisoned, and Neii, after bis rele& fel futiir and sorrow aboutt Sheean peace and progress from platforms both ____orthodox and unconventional. These were crowded days, andWi- fred Holtby enjoyed every minute of them. At one iie she writes about. 'ed f romi poetry, the theater, and current books ; ,r of the the next, of how she bas been having ist, Vin- lier .portrait painted by Clare Leighton, again a wbo worked "whistling like a blacý- 4..- 4-bird" ail the tinie: the next, of lier lec- lc~~fi ne and generous spirit, and a life filled ubledwas with activity,. enjoynient, and a warm ýean was appreciation of other people. iHerald The publishers are aware that there eut sev- are many youthful errors and inaccura- special cies in these letters, but they have in Ans- borne in mind that they are the letters ýre. I-le of a young wornan between the ages of a pre I