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 of being locked up when fire is approaching, of being caught—all these fears shot through with the familiar dread of not getting to a place on time.... So real in fact do the characters, the scenes, the republic itself become that they seem to bear witness against the author's own signed statement: 'The persons and events described in this story are imaginary',"—wrote the reviewer in the Chicago Daily News.

Whatever the future years may give us from the pen of John Masefield, lasting fame has already been won. Eloquent