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Redmond, Major William : Trench Pictures from France

(London: Andrew Melrose, 1917, 2nd impression)

With a biographical introduction by E. M. Smith-Dampier. 8vo; original olive-green cloth, blocked in blind on upper board, and in gilt on spine; pp. 185 + (vii) + 23; two plates. Ex-library copy, with label, pocket and hand-stamps to front endpaper, and code at tail of spine and verso of title page; some hand-stamps to recto of frontis., and elsewhere; cloth a little mottled and worn; usual browning throughout, owing to paper stock used. Fair to good. Published a few months after his death in action, this compilation of a parliamentarian's articles written from the Front is rather uncommon, other than as a modern reprint. 'The articles which make up the bulk of this book were contributed to the Daily Chronicle under a pseudonym. I have read with real pleasure the Introduction written by Miss Smith-Dampier, which shows a sympathetic understanding of my husband's nature and brings out vividly his personality.' - Eleanor Redmond. 'Other Members of Parliament before Willie Redmond - some ten or eleven - had died for their country in the war, yet not one of these deaths was felt as deeply as his in both Houses. "If Willie could come back," said his widow to me, "he would be so surprised, he would wonder what all the fuss was about." It is in these words that we find the key to the secret. The single eye - utter unselfconsciousness - this is what makes Willie Redmond a typical figure. A thousand men bleed and die; only by a rare combination of qualities does an individual stand out as their spiritual representative, summing up in one hero-figure their finest valour, their most unselfish aims. And this romantic, impetuous Irishman combined them all.' - Introduction.

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