Reveille: Devoted to the Disabled Sailor & Soldier

by Galsworthy, John (Editor); and Evans, C. S. (Assistant Editor)

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London: His Majesty s Stationery Office, 1918. Wraps. Fair. 3 volume set. Includes illustrations. Some illustrations in color. Name of previous owner present. Covers have some wear, soiling, edge tears and ships. Numbers 1 and 2 somewhat cocked. Spines chipped. It contains articles, poetry and prose aimed at those whose lives have been reshaped by the First World War. The advertisements to the rear of each volume are aimed specifically to the amputees, and disabled from the War. There are advertisements for hospital furniture and artificial limbs. With the first publication by C. S. Lewis, under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton, to the third volume, a poem titled Death in Battle . Other contributors include Hilaire Belloc, Edith Wharton, Max Beerbohm, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad. It is thought that some content to these three issues have not appeared in any later compilations or anthologies. Edited and with several articles by the eminent novelist and playwright John Galsworthy. Reveille was the new name for its predecessor quarterly periodical entitled Recalled to Life which was a review of all that is being done for the disabled sailor and soldier. John Galsworthy assumed the role of Editor with the periodical name change. The initial article, The Gist of the Matter lays out the purpose and expectations for the revamped journal, which was now aimed at a general audience. The contributors: profit not a penny for their contributions. They are rewarded only by

• Publisher: His Majesty's Stationery Office
• Year: 1918
• Binding: paperback

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