Author: A. G. BradleyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428847166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Excerpt from Canada in the Twentieth Century Ireland and India, we all know, have seduced more than one too confident impressionist into deplorable indiscretions. With these in his mind a witty and well-known statesman now living thus opened his maiden speech on his first visit to India: I have been eight days in the country, just one day too long to write a book. In some ways the Colonies are as trappy to the inquiring stranger as these more notably inscrutable countries. One sees the reasons which are natural enough, but even if otherwise, the surprising things one sometimes read about Canada would sufficiently proclaim the perils of the impressionist - though these are as nothing to the perils of some of their readers, whose future may sometimes depend on opinions the value of which they have no means of estimating. Happily Canada will justify a good deal of the cheery optimism that is inevitable to an Old Country holiday maker on the prairie in autumn. Nor does it matter a bit that he was just as cheerful ten and fifteen years ago, when things really looked rather blue. For I do not believe it is yet fully realised in this country how great is the leap forward in every particular that Canada has made in the last five years, and how immeasurably her horizon has broadened. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
