Excerpt from The Book of France: In Aid of the French Parliamentary Committee’s Fund for the Relief of the Invaded Departments
The Book of France has a fourfold aim. Primarily, it is intended to raise money for French sufferers from German barbarity. But it also aims at forging a new link in that chain of amity which day by day binds more and more closely the illustrious Republic of France to our own dear Motherland. Thus some of the most distinguished of our native writers have been willing to translate into English the work of their French confreres. The volume, therefore, represents much that is most brilliant in the world of letters on both sides of the Channel. It has been adorned by the pencil and the brush of some of the most eminent French artists of our day. And it is to be hoped that in those times of peace to which we all look forward this book may live as the memorial of an episode in the greatest combat fought for light and liberty against darkness and oppression.
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