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It is always interesting me to read something like this:
"Richard Harding Davis
(1864-1916) was an American author of romantic novels and short stories and the
best known war correspondent of his generation. Davis was one of the most
famous and idolized men of his time."
I never heard of him and I have read a lot of military
history . . . well, better late than never!
AMONG the Soldiers of
Fortune whose stories have been told in this book were men who are no longer
living, men who, to the United States, are strangers, and men who were of
interest chiefly because in what they attempted they failed.
Well they are not all obscure - we all know William
Churchill. On Churchill:
. . .there are few young
men—and he is a very young man—who have met more varying fortunes, and none who
has more frequently bent them to his own advancement. To him it has been
indifferent whether, at the moment, the fortune seemed good or evil, in the end
always it was good.
This writer died in 1916 not dreaming that whatever he
imagined for Churchill, it was not enough.
This is amusing:
Now, one can step into a
brass bed at Forty-second Street and in four days at the Coast get into another
brass bed, and in twelve more be spinning down the Bund of Yokohama in a
rickshaw. People go to Japan for the winter months as they used to go to Cairo.
But in 1885 it was no such
light undertaking, certainly not for a young man who had been brought up in the
quiet atmosphere of an inland town, where generations of his family and other
families had lived and intermarried, content with their surroundings.
Ahh for the days of brass beds . . .
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