Halide Edib Hanum - is a type of all that is
best in Turkish womanhood, as readers of her Memoirs (Murray, 218.) may See for themselves. Here is the real inner history of the Young Turkish party, the tale of that spiritual awakening which is the thing that matters in all national movements. The Hanum tells us that she is ".generally speaking, a mild little person," but we know differently Halide Edib Hanum is mild as Joan of Are was mild, strong as the Maid was strong. She led a squadron of Anatolian horsemen but a few years ago ; her name is honoured in every village in Turkey and the army loves her. This book ends with the Armistice : the tale of the new era in Islam she promises to write later. Her part in that epic has been a noble one and we shall await the book with interest, meanwhile this one may be enthusiastically recommended.
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