Pity for Damon

Pity for Damon

CHANCES--A. Hamilton Gibbs--Little, Brown ($2.50). Tom and Jack Ingleside, English adolescents, fitted into French College de St. Malo "like two young zebras introduced into a herd of reindeer." When they learned to say "mer-r-r-de" properly they were grudgingly accepted as decent sorts by the school bullies Lapostolle, Boutet, Verner, Cochois. Close as two fingers were the brothers; through school in France and Germany; through Oxford; through their London apprenticeship (Tom--law; Jack--engineering) until they met lovely artist Molly Prescott. To her, Tom became engaged. Then the War broke. Under fire Tom discovered Molly's picture in Jack's tunic pocket--("Keep me with you, always, and I'll try to keep you safe"). Renouncing all Pythian affection Tom nearly slugged Jack, refused henceforth to speak to him. When Jack was wounded in the Big Drive, Tom was mortally injured in the act of rescuing him. Jack returned to Molly, happy that Tom had died forgiving him. The Author. Arthur Hamilton Gibbs' latest novel, like all save one of his best-known books, is titled with a single enigmatic word, this time taken from a passage in the Form of Solemnization of Matrimony in the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer: ". . . through all the chances and changes of life till death do you part.." Author Gibbs, younger brother of Author Cosmo Hamilton, Author Sir Philip Gibbs, was educated, like Tom and Jack, in the College de St. Malo, St. John's College, Oxford, founded the Oxonian weekly, The Tuesday Review. Later he came to the U. S., divided his two years here between writing two novels and playacting. Other books: The Compleat Oxford Man, Cheadle and Son, Rowlandson's Oxford (history). The Hour of Conflict, The Persistent Lovers, Bluebottles, Gunfodder, Soundings, Labels, Harness.

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