. The war in the air, and particularly how Mr. Bert Smallways fared while it lasted . n and everybody was igh-spirited and patriotic, and so they smeshed up thingsinstead. They jes went on smeshin. And after-wards they jes got desprite and savige. THE EPILOGUE 389 ** It ought to ave ended, said the little boy. ** It didnt ought to ave begun, said old Tom. But people was proud. People was la-dy-da-ishand uppish and proud. Too much meat and drinktheyad. Give in—not them! And after a bit nobodyarst em to give in. Nobody arst em. . He sucked his old gums thoughtfully, and hisgaze strayed away acro
. The war in the air, and particularly how Mr. Bert Smallways fared while it lasted . n and everybody was igh-spirited and patriotic, and so they smeshed up thingsinstead. They jes went on smeshin. And after-wards they jes got desprite and savige. THE EPILOGUE 389 ** It ought to ave ended, said the little boy. ** It didnt ought to ave begun, said old Tom. But people was proud. People was la-dy-da-ishand uppish and proud. Too much meat and drinktheyad. Give in—not them! And after a bit nobodyarst em to give in. Nobody arst em. . He sucked his old gums thoughtfully, and hisgaze strayed away across the valley to where theshattered glass of the Crystal Palace glittered in thesun. A dim large sense of waste and irrevocablelost opportunities pervaded his mind. He repeatedhis ultimate judgment upon all these things, ob-stinately, slowly, and conclusively, his final sayingupon the matter. You can say what you like, he said, It didntought ever to ave begun. He said it simply—somebody somewhere oughtto have stopped something, but who or how or whywere all beyond his CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND COURr, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. NEW NOVEL BY MR. W. H. MALLOCK Cloth, 6j-. An Immortal Soul BY W. H. MALLOCK AUTHOK OF A HUMAN DOCUMENT, THE INDIVIDUALIST, THE HEART OFLIFE, THE RECONSTRUCTION OF BELIEF, ETC., ETC. The subject of this work, begun by the author some years aeo andmany times recast by him, is the practical and moral significance ofccrtam astonishmg psycho-pl,ysical phenomena, cases of which haveduring the past twenty-five years, been studied by scientific men, suchas Charcot, Kibot, Prince, Sidis, Grossart, etc., and been recorded byhem with great minuteness, but the full significance of which, asrelated to our ideas of life, has received as yet no adequate treatmentThe^ auihor has carefully followed in this work the details of actualcases. 1 he scene of the story is a watering-place in the West of EnglandIhe diaracters belong to the classes us
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