Soldiers' Pay

SOLDIERS' PAY" might have been called "What Price Victory?" It deals, vitally and pungently, with the aftermath of the Great War; not with the social and economic adjustments the war necessitated and the soldier faced, but with the human and personal adjustments, or, as too often they turned out, maladjustments; with that, and with the passing away of an old scheme of things.

Whoever thinks Mr. Faulkner's story-people too fantastic to be human must remember that the world they moved in was a...