MARCHING ON. By James Boyd. (Heinemann. 78.6d.) —This long and
panoramic novel describes the boyhood, and, subsequently, the military and prison adventures in the American Civil War of a youth born in North Carolina. Concurrently there runs the story of his apparently hopeless but eventually successful love for a girl far above him in social status. The publishers hardly exaggerate in calling this " an epic book. ' The author is steeped in the history and atmosphere of his period ; his scenes of peace and war, and his presentation of the Southern point of view, are remarkably vivid and convincing ; and his concluding incidents, dramatiz- ing the underlying brotherhood that made union between North and South ultimately possible, are finely contrived and realized. Here is a serious novel of rare power and charm;
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