Publisher's Synopsis
Mr. Compton Leith's prose has been compared to Walter Pater's. In "Domus Doloris," he writes of the great adventure of one who has reached the borderland between life and death and returned to find himself in the House of Pain nursed by those who gave their lives to hospital work in war days. And out of the mist of his experiences, told in musical prose that lures the ear with its rhythms, emerges his belief in the power for good of the discipline recently thrust upon the world and upon the individual. In the service of the hospital he sees the bravest hope for the future, for there he found the spirit of sacrifice that "builds up true selfhood."
--The Review of Reviews, Volume 59
