Henry Woodd Nevinson was a poet, short-story writer, journalist, essayist, reformer, and autobiographer. When he died in 1941 his death notice led the obituary columns in both the London Times and the New York Times. A journalist known primarily as a war reporter and champion of human rights, he was also acknowledged as a writer of great distinction. However, Nevinson's great variety of activities obscured his literary reputation during his lifetime. In his introduction to Essays, Poems and Tales of Henry Nevinson (1948), H. N. Brailsford remarks that if Nevinson "had been a sedentary writer of correct opinions, everyone would have recognized his masterly prose style." Wendell V. Harris, in British Short Fiction in the Nineteenth Century (1979), calls Nevinson's volume of short stories about the working-class poor in the East End, Neighbours of Ours (1895), a "masterpiece of storytelling." His contribution to British short fiction at the turn of the century...