Not Honour More

London: Michael Joseph. Very Good/Very Good. 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 223 pages clean and tight. In Prisoner of Grace Mr Cary brilliantly recreated the great political events of the first decade of the century and the first world war, to such effect that admirers of his genius can scarcely bring themselves to believe that Chester Nimmo did not play his part in them as a living man: in Not Honour More he recreates no less brilliantly the bewildering days of the General Strike of 1926. But Mr Cary is not merely a superb impersonator, he has set himself to reveal a world in action, the world of the free creative soul. And having given us his consummate portrait of the democratic politician, he has now produced, through his soldier-spokesman, the most penetrating attack on all that democracy involves. For Nimmo, democracy, in spite of its compromises, is the only possible government for free men; for Latter, it is a racket, a skin-game by power-merchants, a corruption which is destroying the very soul of Britain. .