s is the highest life of
man.

Our son has written on the margin, "The best kind of life that of
constant struggle." Froude goes on to refer to the work in the
sixteenth century of the servants of England, whose life was a long
battle, either with the elements or with men, and who passed away
content when God had nothing more to bid them do. The following
passages are again underlined:

They did not complain, and why should we complain for them?... An
honourable death had no terrors for them.

"Seeing," in Humphrey Gilbert's own brave words, "that death is
inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal, wherefore in this
behalf _mutare vel timere sperno_."

Paul's marginal note to this is, "Compare Browning's 'Prospice.'" I
turn to "Prospice" and I read:

For the journey is done and the summit attained,
And the barriers fall,
Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained,
The reward of it all.
I was ever a fighter, so--one fight more,
The best and the last!
I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore,
And bade me creep past.
No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers
The heroes of old,
Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears
Of pain, darkness and cold.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

And with God be the rest!

PART II

WAR LETTERS

[Illustration: Paul as a Subaltern in the A.S.C.

(From a Photograph by his Brother)]

AT A HOME PORT

From April 15, 1915, to July 26 in the same year Second Lieutenant H.
P. M. Jones was employed at a home port which was, and is, one of the
principal centres of supply for the British Expeditionary Force. He
was glad of the opportunity of obtaining an insight into the methods
of supplying the British Army in the field, and was impressed with the
thoroughness, efficiency, and businesslike promptitude of the Army
Service Corps. He took the earliest chance of quitting this routine
work and applying for service abroad.

_May 15th_, 1915.

You London folk seem to have been having high times with the
enemy aliens. It is quite startling and quite pleasant to see
English people roused to do things at last. I see from the photos
in the papers that the rioting was done for a great part by men
of fighting age wh