Excerpt from The Pleasant Land of France

In the Preface to the First Edition of The Pleasant Land of France, published in 1908, wore the following words: "If anything contained in these pages helps to disperse a single national prejudice, or to place any features in the genius and character of our neighbours in a fairer light, their object will have been gained." Within sound of the guns, the passage seems strangely out of date. In 1915, the Third Edition of the book finds England and France closely allied, fighting side by side, each for its existence as a nation, and together for the ideals that both allies hold in common of civilisation, of individual liberty, of ordered democratic progress. As one people, the two nations have shared the most poignant of human emotions. Together, they have been thrilled with anxiety in reverse, with pride in deeds of heroism, with grief for pain and death, with the passage through doubt, misgiving and uncertainty to the confident hope in ultimate victory.

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