The Land of
Afternoon
A SATIRE
BY
Gilbert Knox
OTTAWA
THE GRAPHIC PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1924
By Gilbert Knox
PRINTED IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Land of Afternoon
By GILBERT KNOX
| PART ONE | THEY CAME. |
| PART TWO | THEY SAW. |
| PART THREE | THEY CONQUERED. |
“Courage,” he said, and pointed to the land.
“This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon,”
In the afternoon they came unto a land
In which it seemed always afternoon.
—The Lotus Eaters
Foreword
However this novel may be classified by readersor librarians, it is frankly intended to be a satireupon some phases of social and political life inCanada. Satire is properly a criticism of human follyor unworthiness in a class or in the mass, and the exactlimning of people in real life is no part of its metier.When it makes such an attempt, it ceases to be satireand tends to become biography seasoned with defamation—asad misuse of what is broadly regarded as amedium for the regeneration of society.
But however satire is regarded in the abstract byhis readers, the author desires it to be clearly understoodthat all the characters upon his stage are purelyimaginary. While he thought it necessary to occupyhimself with s