| Show n rU jj Life of the Greatest of All Englishmen n n n n l nn n n n n n nil n n n n n nr n r n fl n w rR Sir Walter Waiter posthumous Story Sial of King J Alfred will be pub published published lI hed by b the Appleton next week It Is a n direct simple anti and vivid ac no account account count of one whom Sir lair Ir Walter calls colls the greatest of all hm n and und In England at kasl Iralli it may mo achieve the authors pet Ilet ambition would rath rather er he says aya write a book for the peo pea people pIe than anything else the world WorM can call offer Alfred Is If the one great charac character character ter cr In early h history who still hives Ives In the popular memory He lie died tiled exactly ei one thousand thou HInd years ear ago 40 but buthis buthis buthis his name Is III familiar to many who per perhaps haps da do not know kno the name namo of or any other king or other worthy before th the Norman conquest He Ile II has a special ln in interest terest Inet In tn this A D 1901 The life of ot Alfred as 81 Sir Walter reminds remind has ha been bet of ot us up n late very ery much spoken of or by the press prep pre It will willbe willbe be spoken of or much more when In thi th autumn of this earthe great millenary celebration of the king Is l held beld In his hl venerable capital of Winchester This book Is II I written with a view ti tt tithe the right understanding of the celebration lion tion and of him celebrated it tell telli I what manner of man Alfred wu WI we what hat kind of ot world he be b lived In what he did In succinct but ut It rt n 11 tW t vents as at once captain lawgiver saint and scholar alike the deliverer the ruler and ond the teacher teaMer of ot his peo people pie It shows hols him fighting as ns a n boy Loy and man almost continuously for thirty years and more nearly the whole of at his hii hi active life tells how his hla hi Jom was overrun his people murdered his land devastated his iii churches and schools swept away how religion liberty learning the tho arts oris were all d Only one thing remained to the unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate country countr the tenacity the courage cour courage courI age I tho the faith of at tho the king Ho triumphed over oer his enemies He lit laid the foundations In everything of or the England that was to grow out of ot his little kingdom of Wessex Do not call him the creator or 01 the founder of or anything ho he renewed the Uie foundations he be made the growth and development of or possible ho hoglO gave glO us our fleet fielt our army antU our Insl our religion our OUI arts Rrt and our trade Not that he Invented 1 created cl CJ I founded these things his ilia idt brother hal had halft hada a ft fleet fI t there were English J armies be bee fore his hla time there was a score core of or law laws a before ills his own there Wa a II foreign forel trade trae there were arts before Alfred I lived Hut tut lut even everything thing had luul been b n de destroyed tier strayed Itro and nd Alfred in restoring and rebuilding reb renewed the foundations and made things thing stable table which wore Ware unstable una table placed on the solid rock of religion what had the tilt a sands sanda of ot t i |
