The Day of Glory

The Day of Glory is the title story of a collection of sketches relating to the writer's (Dorothy Canfield's) experiences of war times in France. Le jour de gloire est arrivé when the cannons boomed and the bells rang out the news of the signed armistice. Briefly but intimately the writer tells of feelings that surged and things that happened in Paris on that memorable occasion. With rare insight and sympathy she penetrates into the French character and in a style no less admirable she depicts its splendid and noble qualities. Not quick to find the mote in her neighbor's eye-be the eye that of the French or of the American soldiery-she stresses the lights rather than the shades of the war incidents.
"On the Edge" is an exquisite story of home life, typical doubtless of many French mothers and their children while the father was at the front France's "Fighting Woman Doctor" (Girard Mangin) is the story of a heroine such as we are taught to expect from the homeland of Jeanne d'Arc. The chapter on Lourdes contains as true and as beautiful a picture of the characteristic feature of devotional life at Lourdes-the processions-as will be found in all the vast literature descriptive of Our Lady's shrine at Massabielle.