Another Sheaf

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Another Sheaf is by John Galsworthy, and its contents list The Road, The Sacred Work, Balance Sheet of the Soldier-Workman and The Children's Jewel Fund. Further titles in the contents include Englishman and Russian, American and Briton, Anglo-American Drama and Its Future, Speculations, The Land, 1917, The Land, 1918 and Grotesques.

The piece called The Road describes a road that stretched in a pale, straight streak, narrowing to a mere thread at the limit of vision. The writer of these speculations says to himself, "Let me, at all events, try to eliminate any bias, and see the whole thing as should an umpire." The writer asks what will be the physical effect of the war on the soldier-workman, and says military training, open-air life and plentiful food are of such obvious physical advantage in the vast majority of cases as to need no pointing out. A vow is urged in the words "No more of Madness", whether in war or in peace.

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John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy trained as a barrister but devoted his career to novels, plays, and short fiction about English social life. The Forsyte Saga, the family chronicle singled out when he received the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature, brings together three novels and two interludes.