THE MEN WHO COME BACK
"In ail artielo by M. Henri Lavednn in 'L' Illustration' there is a vivid picture of the effect of contact with the realities of war upon the character and demeanour of soldiers returning from the front," says the "Nation." "_\l. Lavedan was impressed with the gravity, almost the aloofness, of these men. For tliem life had taken on a new and deep colouring, as it assumed, in Browning's poem, for the Lazarus wlio returned from tlio liouso of the dead. Observes here note tho same characteristic in our snjdiers. Does the nation share their gravity?"
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2489, 16 June 1915, Page 7
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155THE MEN WHO COME BACK Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2489, 16 June 1915, Page 7
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