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gasping under the weight of the knapsack, on top of which the coffee grinder and within which the lilac tea, they move coughing and spluttering from the right bank of the Rhine to the left bank, cursing those who have torn them away from the embrace of their grandchildren and into the path of certain death. As to the German reports of victory, they’re but the famous Prussian lies.
That’s just how the English think of us today! A drawing in [indecipherable] at the beginning of the world war showed our army in a similar vein, except that each warrior also sported a botanical cylinder.
Another book which I recently read was ‘’The Gospel of Wealth and other timely essays’’ by [Andrew] Carnegie. Generally, despite his Scottish heritage, he is a full-blooded American and has appropriate opinions. America with her people and her laws is his religion, and although many true sons of the American nation have doubtless
contributed to her growing prosperity and the formulation of the laws,

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