The Diggers 11

The Diggers 11

THIRD EDITION

 

THE RED HORIZON

 

By PATRICK MACGILL, Author of "Children of the Dead End," "The

Rat-Pit," "The Amateur Army," etc. Crown 8vo. Price 3/- net. Inland

Postage 6d. extra.

 

 

FIRST REVIEWS

 

PALL MALL GAZETTE. "Vivid work."

 

SUNDAY TIMES. "... as this. Alive from cover to

cover."

 

DAILY MAIL. "A very remarkable book ... a

series of wonderful word pictures."

 

EVENING STANDARD. "This book, sincere and enthralling,

has a place of its own in the literature

of the war."

 

COUNTRY LIFE. "_The Red Horizon_ is sure to be as

widely read as the most vivid description

yet written of the actualities of

this war."

 

GLOBE. "_The Red Horizon_ should be read in

conjunction with 'The First Hundred

Thousand.' Each is a pendant to

the other. Mr. MacGill's book is

one of the few volumes on the war

which one can cordially recommend."

 

DAILY NEWS. "His book is a book of real things. It

will also be eagerly read as a book of

adventures, for, in his experiences

with the London Irish, Mr. MacGill

found adventures at every step. Its

mixture of excitement, amusement,

and gross reality is likely to make it

one of the most popular books about

the war."

 

SATURDAY REVIEW. "Bill the Cockney is a breathing

character that Dickens would have

loved; and now that he has put fun

into this book he cannot be slain

until the book dies. All the other

characters are alive, but Bill lives

with a vigour that cannot come from

his narrow, street-bred chest. He is

the genius of Cockneyism."

 

 

HERBERT JENKINS LD., 3 YORK STREET, LONDON, S.W.

 

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10,000 COPIES CALLED FOR IN 10 DAYS

 

NOW IN ITS SEVENTH EDITION

 

CHILDREN OF THE DEAD END

 

The Autobiography of a Navvy. By PATRICK MACGILL. Crown 8vo. Price

6/- net. Inland Postage 6d. extra.

 

 

MANCHESTER GDN. "A grand book."

GLOBE "A living story."

D. CITIZEN "Still booming!"

STANDARD "A notable book."

SATURDAY REVIEW "An achievement."

BOOKMAN "Something unique."

OUTLOOK "A remarkable book."

BYSTANDER "A human document."

COUNTRY LIFE "A human document."

TRUTH "Intensely interesting."

EV. STANDARD "A thrilling achievement."

D. TELEGRAPH "Will have a lasting value."

PALL MALL GAZ. "Nothing can withstand it."

SPHERE "The book has genius in it."

BOOKMAN "A poignantly human book."

ENGLISH REVIEW "A wonderful piece of work."

GRAPHIC "An enthralling slice of life."

D. SKETCH "A book that will make a stir."

ATHENÆUM "We welcome such books as this."

ILL. LONDON NEWS "An outstanding piece of work."

D. CHRONICLE "Tremendous, absorbing, convincing."

REV. OF REVIEWS "The book is not merely notable--

it is remarkable."

LA STAMPA "Un nuovo grande astro della

litteratura inglese."

D. EXPRESS "Will be one of the most talked-of

books of the year."

SPECTATOR "A book of unusual interest,

which we cannot but praise."

 

 

HERBERT JENKINS LD., 3 YORK STREET, LONDON, S.W.

 

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GLENMORNAN

 

An Irish Novel by PATRICK MACGILL, Author of "Children of the Dead

End," "The Rat Pit," "The Great Push," etc. Crown 8vo. 6/- net.

 

 

In his new book Mr. MacGill gives a complete picture of Irish peasant

life in his native county of Donegal. Doalty Gallagher, becoming

tired of journalism and Fleet Street, returns to the peace and quiet

of his old home. Here he sets himself to work on the land, and to

renew his acquaintance with the people whom he had known in his

childhood--Grania Coolin, the lone widow woman, Dennys, the drover

and man of the world, Owen Briney, the close-fisted farmer, Oidny

Leahys, the peasant philosopher, and Sheila Dermod, the fairest

girl in all the barony. Doalty finds however, that the years spent

in the land of the Sassenach have changed him. He has lost the

simple and trusting faith of his fathers, and when, desperately in

love with Sheila, he asks her to marry him, the priest intervenes

and Doalty is forced to leave the country, an object of universal

suspicion. The peasantry of Glenmornan, turf-diggers, creel-makers,

potheen-distillers, cattle-drovers and knitters of stockings are

presented with insight, freshness and sympathy. The petty vices of

the villagers of Greenanore, the gombeen men, the rent-collectors

and the priests are laid bare by Mr. MacGill, who knows them as few

other writers know them. He is not an artist from without, looking in

and describing what he sees, but one who tells of what he himself has

felt and known.

 

 

THE BROWN BRETHREN

 

By PATRICK MACGILL. Second printing. Price 6/- net.

 

 

HERBERT JENKINS LD., 3 YORK STREET, LONDON, S.W.

 

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SIXTH EDITION.

 

THE RAT-PIT

 

By PATRICK MACGILL, Author of "Children of the Dead End." Crown 8vo.

Price 6/- net. Inland Postage 6_d._ extra.

 

 

"Children of the Dead End" came upon the literary world as something

of a surprise; it dealt with a phase of life about which nothing

was known. It was compared with the work of Borrow and Kipling.

Incidentally three editions, aggregating 10,000 copies, were called

for within fifteen days. In his new book Mr. MacGill still deals with

the underworld he knows so well. He tells of a life woven of darkest

threads, full of pity and pathos, lighted up by that rare and quaint

humour that made his first book so attractive. "The Rat-Pit" tells

the story of an Irish peasant girl brought up in an atmosphere of

poverty, where the purity of the poor and the innocence of maidenhood

stand out in simple relief against a grim and sombre background.

Norah Ryan leaves her home at an early age, and is plunged into a

new world where dissolute and heedless men drag her down to their

own miry level. Mr. MacGill's lot has been cast in strange places,

and every incident of his book is pregnant with a vivid realism that

carries the conviction that it is a literal transcript from life, as

in fact it is. Only last summer, just before he enlisted, Mr. MacGill

spent some time in Glasgow reviving old memories of its underworld.

His characters are mostly real persons, and their sufferings, the

sufferings of women burdened and oppressed with wrongs which women

alone bear, are a strong indictment against a dubious civilisation.

 

 

HERBERT JENKINS LD., 3 YORK STREET, LONDON, S.W.

 

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THE GREAT PUSH

 

An Episode of the Great War. By Rifleman PATRICK MACGILL, Author of

"The Red Horizon," "Children of the Dead End," etc. Crown 8vo. Cloth.

With three-colour jacket. Price 3/- net. Inland Postage 5d. extra.

 

 

The London Irish distinguished themselves at Loos and Rifleman

Patrick MacGill was present during the whole operation. His story is

a series of vivid pictures of battle and the horrors left behind the

charging troops. Humour and tragedy go hand in hand in this latest

work of realism from the pen of the author of "Children of the Dead

End."

 

 

A NEW BOOK OF POEMS

 

SOLDIER SONGS

 

By PATRICK MACGILL, Author of "Children of the Dead End," "The

Rat-Pit," and "The Amateur Army." Crown 8vo. 3/6 net.

 

 

HERBERT JENKINS LD., 3 YORK STREET, LONDON, S.W.