Show our books the best of ua U george meredith said this refusing an interviewer who wished to account of his personality to the public may not the nation as a whole echo the I 1 saying the books that the nation I 1 gives to the world are the best ot of it when indeed the books are true ones and alas when they are the other sort bort shall not he whose pen was concerned regret that he tided aided with the worst of his countrymen here is why the tha anglo saxon may stand firm in hope whatever the faults of insularity su provincialism of spread elsm or whatever you will the great books written la in the english language speak the best beat of these nations and give reassurance reassurance of that which lies at the heart of each mary stanhope |