If you have ever steamed up the Estuary of the Fal that stately Cornish river and gazed with rapture at the lofty and thick-wooded hills through which the wide stream runs you have probably seen on the eastern bank the splendid mansion of Graysroof.

Ernest Raymond was a 20th century British novelist. His best-known work written in 1922 was Tell England, which was set in World War I. The story begins with the lives of Rupert Ray and his school chums. Pranks played on the teachers are told from Rupert's perspective. Their school lives teach them honesty, courage, and sportsmanship. When war comes the boys eagerly leave to join the army as Officers. The boys begin to feel the tragedy and fear of war when their school comrades begin to die. When Ray returns to England he is compelled to write and tell England what they have experienced.

Ernest Raymond (1888-1974) was a British novelist, best known for his 1922 book, Tell England, about the First World War and the young men sent to fight in it. His next biggest success was We, The Accused which was made into a BBC drama starring Ian Holm in 1980. Raymond's post-war autobiography, Please You, Draw Near, was published in 1969. He was awarded an OBE in 1972, and died in 1974. Other works by him include Damascus Gate (1923) and The Shout of the King (1924).

TELL ENGLAND -A Study in a Generation By ERNEST RAYMOND REGINALD VINCENT CORBET. CONTENTS: PAGE A PROLOGUE BY PADRE MONTYBOOK. I FIVE GAY YEARS OF SCHOOL PART LT1DAL REACHES CHAPTER1. RUPERT RAY BEGINS ms STORY ... 192. RUPERT OPENS A GREAT WAR .... 393. AWFUL ROUT OF RAY..... 554. THE PREFECTS Go OVER TO THE ENEMY . . 635. CHEATING........ 876. AN INTERLUDE...... Q8PART ILLONG, LONG THOUGHTS7. CAUGHT ON THE BEATEN TRACE . . . 1018. THE FREEDHAM REVEUTIONS, . . .1129. WATERING OPENS...... 119to. WATERIOO CONTINUES: THE CHARGE AT THEEND OF THE DAY...... 129n. THS GREAT MATCH...... 13912. CASTItBS AND BRICKDUST . lZviii ContentsBOOK IIAND THE REST WAR PART RANGOON NIGHTSCHAPTER TAGB1. THE ETERNAL WATERWAY . . 1652. PADRE MONTY AND MAJOR HARDY COME ABOARD 1853. C. OF E., Now AND ALWAYS ... 1984. THE VIGIL....... 2075. PENANCE........ 2146. MAJOR HARDY AND PADRE MONTY FINISH THEVOYAGE....... 220PART ILTHE WHITE HEIGHTS7. MUDROS, IN THE ISLE OF LEMNOS . . . 2348. THE GREEN ROOM...... 2409. PROCEEDING FORTHWITH TO GAUJPOU . . 24810. Suvu, AND HEIES AT LAST . . . 25711. AN ATMOSPHERE OF SHOCKS AND SUDDEN DEATH 26412. SACRED TO WmifE...... 27013. LIVE DEEP, ANB LOT THE LESSER THINGSLIVE LONG ... 27414. THE NINETEENTH cs DECEMBER . . .27915. TRANSIT........ 29316. THE HOURS BEFORE THE END . . . .30117. THE END OF GALUPOU..... 30618. THE END OF RUPERTS STORY, . 315. PROLOGUE BY PADRS MONTY: IN the year that the Colonel died he took little Rupert tosee the swallows fly away. I can find no better beginningthan that.When there devolved upon me as a labour of love theediting of Rupert Rays book, Tell England, I carried themanuscript into my room one bright autumn afternoon, andread it during the fall of a soft evening, till the light failed, and my eyes burned with the strain of reading in the dark.I could hardly leave his ingenuous tale to rise and turn onthe gas. Nor, perhaps, did I want such artificial brightness.There are times when one prefers the twilight.

British novelist, Ernest Raymond (1888-1974), was born in France and was educated at St Paul's School, London, Chichester Theological College and Duram University. Raymond was ordained into the Anglican Church in 1914 and resigned in 1923. His first and most popular novel, Tell England (1922), was based upon his experiences in the First World War, when he served as a clergyman.The story begins with the public school lives of Rupert Ray and his school friends. Pranks played on the teachers are told from Rupert's perspective. Their school lives teach them honesty, courage and sportsmanship. When war comes the boys eagerly leave to join the army as officers. The boys begin to feel the tragedy and heroism of war when their school comrades begin to die. When Ray returns to England he is compelled to write and tell England what they have experienced.The imagery of the First World War--the trenches, no-man's-land, barbed wire, gas, slaughter--captured in newsreels, photographs, memoirs, and poems, tells of the war as a living nighmare. There is, however, another side to this war of mass slaughter, mutilation and despair. There was innocence, patriotism, enthusiasm, gallantry, and sportsmanship--the war of schoolboys and subalterns. This is a side of the war that is feelingly and movingly evoked in Raymond's Tell England: "Tell England, ye who pass this monument, We died for her, and here we rest content."Dr Craig Paterson, General Editor, Viewforth Classics.

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