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PREFACE
The tales here told are written, not to glorify war.
They represent an
effort to renew in popular nemory the great traditions
but to nourish patriotism.
of the Imperial race to which we belong.
The history of the Empire of which we are subjects
-the story of the struggles and sufferings by which it
has been built upis the best legacy which the past
But it is a treasure strangely
The State makes primary education its
anxious care, yet it does not make its own history a
There is real danger
that for the average youth the great names of British
story may become meaningless sounds, that his imagi-
nation will take no colour from the rich and deep tints
of bistory. And what a pallid, cold-blooded citizenship
has bequeathed to us.
neglected.
vital part of that education.
this must produce!