{"product_id":"2940013401044","title":"A STUDENT IN ARMS SECOND SERIES","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                      PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  SOMETHING ABOUT \"A STUDENT IN ARMS\"   1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  AUTHOR'S FOREWORD   33\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  I.--THE POTENTATE   37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  II.--THE BAD SIDE OF MILITARY SERVICE   51\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  III.--THE GOOD SIDE OF \"MILITARISM\"   65\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IV.--A MONTH'S REFLECTIONS   79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  V.--ROMANCE   93\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VI.--IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS (I)   109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VII.--THE FEAR OF DEATH IN WAR   115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VIII.--IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS (II)   127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IX.--THE WISDOM OF \"A STUDENT IN ARMS\"   139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  X.--IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS (III)   145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XI.--LETTER TO AN ARMY CHAPLAIN   153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XII.--\"DON'T WORRY\"   165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIII.--IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS (IV)   175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIV.--A PASSING IN JUNE, 1915   181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XV.--MY HOME AND SCHOOL:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I MY HOME   199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    II SCHOOL   216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  SOME NOTES ON THE FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY \"HILDA\"   237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSOMETHING ABOUT \"A STUDENT IN ARMS\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBY H.M.A.H.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"His life was a Romance of the most noble and beautiful kind.\" So says\u003cbr\u003eone who has known him from childhood, and into how many dull, hard\u003cbr\u003eand narrow lives has he not been the first to bring the element of\u003cbr\u003eRomance?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe carried it about with him; it breathes through his writings,\u003cbr\u003eand this inevitable expression of it gives the saying of one of his\u003cbr\u003efriends, that \"it is as an artist that we shall miss him most,\" the\u003cbr\u003emore significance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd does not the artist as well as the poet live forever in his works?\u003cbr\u003eIs not the breath of inspiration that such alone can breathe into the\u003cbr\u003edull clods of their generation bound to be immortal?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, his \"Romance\" is to be written and his biographer will be\u003cbr\u003eone whose good fortune it has been to see much of the \"Student\" in\u003cbr\u003eBermondsey, the place that was the forcing-house of his development.\u003cbr\u003eIn the following pages it is proposed only to give an outline of his\u003cbr\u003elife, and particularly the earlier and therefore to the public unknown\u003cbr\u003eparts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDonald Hankey was born at Brighton in 1884; he was the seventh child\u003cbr\u003eof his parents, and was welcomed with excitement and delight by a\u003cbr\u003eready-made family of three brothers and two sisters living on his\u003cbr\u003earrival amongst them. He was the youngest of them by seven years, and\u003cbr\u003eall had their plans for his education and future, and waited jealously\u003cbr\u003efor the time when he should be old enough to be removed from the\u003cbr\u003eloving shelter of his mother's arms and be \"brought up.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis education did, as a matter of fact, begin at a very early age; for\u003cbr\u003eone day, when he was perhaps about three years old, dressed in a white\u003cbr\u003ewoolly cap and coat, and out for his morning walk, a neighbouring baby\u003cbr\u003estepped across from his nurse's side and with one well-directed blow\u003cbr\u003efelled Donald to the ground! Donald was too much astonished and hurt\u003cbr\u003eat the sheer injustice of the assault to dream of retaliation, but\u003cbr\u003ewhen they reached home and his indignant nurse told the story, he was\u003cbr\u003etaken aside by his brothers and made to understand that by his failure\u003cbr\u003eto resist the assault, and give the other fellow back as good as he\u003cbr\u003egave, \"the honour of the family\" was impugned! He was then and there\u003cbr\u003eput through a systematic course of \"the noble art of self-defence.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"And I think,\" said one of his brothers only the other day, \"that he\u003cbr\u003ewas prepared to act upon his instructions should occasion arise.\"\u003cbr\u003eIt will be seen from this incident that his bringing-up was of a\u003cbr\u003edecidedly strenuous character and likely to make Donald's outlook on\u003cbr\u003elife a serious one!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was naturally a peace-loving and philosophical little boy, very\u003cbr\u003elovable and attractive with his large clear eyes with their curious\u003cbr\u003edistribution of colour--the one entirely blue and the other three\u003cbr\u003eparts a decided brown--the big head set proudly on the slender little\u003cbr\u003ebody, and the radiant illuminating smile, that no one who knew him\u003cbr\u003ewell at any time of his life can ever forget. It spoke of a light\u003cbr\u003ewithin, \"that mysterious light which is of course not physical,\" as\u003cbr\u003ewas said by one who met him only once, but was quick to note this\u003cbr\u003echaracteristic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDonald's more strenuous times were in the boys' holidays--those\u003cbr\u003etumultuous of seasons so well known to the members of all big\u003cbr\u003efamilies! His eldest brother, Hugh, was bent on making an all-round\u003cbr\u003eathlete of him; another brother saw in him an embryo county cricketer,\u003cbr\u003ewhile a third was most particular about his music, giving him lessons\u003cbr\u003eon the violoncello with clockwork regularity. The games were terribly\u003cbr\u003ethrilling and dangerous, especially when the schoolroom was turned\u003cbr\u003einto a miniature battlefield, with opposing armies of tiny lead\u003cbr\u003esoldiers.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069909385456,"sku":"2940013401044","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013401044_p0.jpg?v=1763580452","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013401044","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}