Charles Lewis Hind

Charles Lewis Hind worked across British journalism, editing, art criticism, and authorship, with books ranging from cultural commentary to studies of major painters. The Soldier-Boy, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1916, belongs to his First World War writing and presents wartime experience through a compact narrative. Hind edited The Academy and contributed criticism and essays to periodicals during a long literary career. His art books addressed Rembrandt, Romney, Turner, Watteau, and the practice of looking carefully at pictures. He also wrote Authors and I and The Diary of a Looker-On, works that record encounters and observations from literary and public life. The Soldier-Boy shows another side of that attentive prose, turning from galleries and authors to the pressures placed on a young figure during wartime. Hind's varied bibliography is united by an accessible critical voice and an interest in how individual experience reveals a wider historical moment.