Home Life in Germany
Cecily Ullman Sidgwick
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, June 13, 2012)
German army, who told his English hostess that he knew the position of every blacksmiths forge in Yorkshire. I wondered at the time how many officers in theE nglish army had learned where to find the blacksmiths forges in Pomerania. But those are bygone days. Most of us know more about Germany now than we do about our own country.1 We go over there singly and in batches, we see their admirable public institutions, we visit their factories, we examine their Poor Laws, we walk their hospitals, we look on at their drill and their manoeuvres, we follow each twist and turn of their politics, we watch their birth-rate, we write reams about their navy, and we can explain to any one according to our bias exactly what their system of Protection does for them. We are often sufficiently ignorant to compare them with the Japanese, and about once a month we publish a weighty book concerning various aspects of their flourishing empire. 1T hroughout the book, although I am of German parentage, I have spoken of England as my country and of theE nglish as my country-people. I was born and bred in England, and I found it more convenient for purposes of expression to belong to one country than to both.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org