STORY OF BORSTAL LIFE
“Welded Lives.” by George Ingram (London: Duckworth).
Mr. Ingram has previously written a novel called “Stir,” which dealt with prison life. He follows that up with "Welded Lives,” a story of life at a Borstal school under preseut-day conditions. The author is apparently writing from personal experience, and certainly he writes with great conviction, his aim being to give a full account of Borstal life with all its faults and virtues, though he finds few of the latter, so that, having shown up conditions as the are, officialdom may make the necessary adjustments. As a novel the book does not amount to a great deal. The hero is a lad of such tough moral fibre that he passes unscathed through all the perils which the author describes, many of which, incidentally, might easily be prevalentin any educational boarding establishment. One or two of the minor characters are much more convincingly drawn. The great merit of “Welded Lives" is that it graphically reveals weaknesses in the system in a way which no report of an official investigation could do, and it is as a social document rather than ns literature that it must be regarded.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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198STORY OF BORSTAL LIFE Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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