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Title: A Student in Arms
Second Series

Author: Donald Hankey

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Language: English

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STUDENT IN ARMS

SECOND SERIES

BY

DONALD HANKEY

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J. ST. LOE STRACHEY

EDITOR OF _THE SPECTATOR_

NEW YORK

B.P. DUTTON & CO.

681 FIFTH AVENUE

Published 1917 BY E.P. DUTTON & CO.

CONTENTS

PAGE

SOMETHING ABOUT "A STUDENT IN ARMS" 1

AUTHOR'S FOREWORD 33

I.--THE POTENTATE 37

II.--THE BAD SIDE OF MILITARY SERVICE 51

III.--THE GOOD SIDE OF "MILITARISM" 65

IV.--A MONTH'S REFLECTIONS 79

V.--ROMANCE 93

VI.--IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS (I) 109

VII.--THE FEAR OF DEATH IN WAR 115

VIII.--IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS (II) 127

IX.--THE WISDOM OF "A STUDENT IN ARMS" 139

X.--IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS (III) 145

XI.--LETTER TO AN ARMY CHAPLAIN 153

XII.--"DON'T WORRY" 165

XIII.--IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS (IV) 175

XIV.--A PASSING IN JUNE, 1915 181

XV.--MY HOME AND SCHOOL:

I MY HOME 199

II SCHOOL 216

SOME NOTES ON THE FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY "HILDA" 237

SOMETHING ABOUT "A STUDENT IN ARMS"

BY H.M.A.H.

"His life was a Romance of the most noble and beautiful kind." So says
one who has known him from childhood, and into how many dull, hard
and narrow lives has he not been the first to bring the element of
Romance?

He carried it about with him; it breathes through his writings,
and this inevitable expression of it gives the saying of one of his
friends, that "it is as an artist that we shall miss him most," the
more significance.

And does not the artist as well as the poet live forever in his works?
Is not the breath of inspiration that such alone can breathe into the
dull clods of their generation bound to be immorta