An Empire Story, Stories of India and the Greater Colonies Told to Children
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This historic book is from 1908.
From the book's Preface:
' The Empire upon which the sun never sets.' We all
know these words, and we say them with a somewhat
proud and grand air, for that vast Empire is ours. It
belongs to us, and we to it.
But although we are proud of our Empire it may be
that some of us know little of its history. We only
know it as it now is, and we forget perhaps that there
was a time when it did not exist. We forget that it
has grown to be great out of very small beginnings. We
forget that it did not grow great all at once, but that
with pluck and patience our fellow-countrymen built it
up by little and by little, each leaving behind him a vaster
inheritance than he found. So, ' lest we forget,' in this
book I have told a few of the most exciting and interest-
ing stories about the building up of this our great heritage
and possession.
But we cannot
' Rise with the sun and ride with the same,
Until the next morning he rises again.'
We cannot in one day gird the whole world about,
following the sun in his course, visiting with him all the
many countries, all the scattered islands of the sea which
form the mighty Empire upon which he never ceases- to
shine. No, it will take us many days to compass the
journey, and little eyes would ache, little brains be weary
long before the tale ended did I try to tell of all "'the
far-away isles of home, where the old speech is native,
and the old flag floats." So in this book you will find
stories of the five chief portions of our Empire only, that
is of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,
and India. But perhaps some day, if you greet these
stories as kindly as you have greeted those of England
and of Scotland, I will tell you in another book more
stories of Our Empire.
The stories are not all bright. How should they be ?
We have made mistakes, we have been checked here, we
have stumbled there. We may own it without shame,
perhaps almost without sorrow, and still love our Empire
and its builders. Still we may say,
' Where shall the watchful sun,
England, my England,
Match the master-work you 've done,
England, my own?
When shall he rejoice agen
Such a breed of mighty men
As come forward, one to ten,
To the song on your bugles blown,
England
Down the years on your bugles blown ? '
- H. E. MARSHALL
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Sample content from the book's seventy-eight chapters:
CANADA:
- How Lief the Son of Eric the Red Sailed into the West
- Westward! Westward! Westward!
- How a Breton Sailor Came to Canada
- The Story of Henry Hudson
- The Founding of Quebec
- The Adventures of LaSalle
-AUSTRALIA:
- "There is Nothing New Under the Sun"
- The Founding of Sydney
- The Adventures of George Bass and Matthew Flinders
- The First Traveller in Queensland
- The Finding of Gold
- The Bushrangers
NEW ZEALAND:
- How a Great White Bird Came to the Shores
- The Apostle of New Zealand
- How the Maoris Became the Children of the Great White Queen
-"The Heavenly Dawn" and "The Wild Cabbage Leaf" Make War
- The Flagstaff War
- The Storming of the Bat's Nest
SOUTH AFRICA:
- The Coming of the Dutch
- The Coming of the French
- The Coming of the British
- The Great Witch Doctor
- About the Black Napoleon
- The Story of a False Prophet
INDIA:
- Alexander the Great Invades India
- How Brave Men Went Sailing Upon Unknown Seas
- The First British Ambassador Goes to the Court of the Emperor of India
- The Hatred of the Dutch
- The French in India
- The First Afghan War
An Empire Story, Stories of India and the Greater Colonies Told to Children Specifications
This historic book is from 1908.
From the book's Preface:
' The Empire upon which the sun never sets.' We all
know these words, and we say them with a somewhat
proud and grand air, for that vast Empire is ours. It
belongs to us, and we to it.
But although we are proud of our Empire it may be
that some of us know little of its history. We only
know it as it now is, and we forget perhaps that there
was a time when it did not exist. We forget that it
has grown to be great out of very small beginnings. We
forget that it did not grow great all at once, but that
with pluck and patience our fellow-countrymen built it
up by little and by little, each leaving behind him a vaster
inheritance than he found. So, ' lest we forget,' in this
book I have told a few of the most exciting and interest-
ing stories about the building up of this our great heritage
and possession.
But we cannot
' Rise with the sun and ride with the same,
Until the next morning he rises again.'
We cannot in one day gird the whole world about,
following the sun in his course, visiting with him all the
many countries, all the scattered islands of the sea which
form the mighty Empire upon which he never ceases- to
shine. No, it will take us many days to compass the
journey, and little eyes would ache, little brains be weary
long before the tale ended did I try to tell of all "'the
far-away isles of home, where the old speech is native,
and the old flag floats." So in this book you will find
stories of the five chief portions of our Empire only, that
is of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,
and India. But perhaps some day, if you greet these
stories as kindly as you have greeted those of England
and of Scotland, I will tell you in another book more
stories of Our Empire.
The stories are not all bright. How should they be ?
We have made mistakes, we have been checked here, we
have stumbled there. We may own it without shame,
perhaps almost without sorrow, and still love our Empire
and its builders. Still we may say,
' Where shall the watchful sun,
England, my England,
Match the master-work you 've done,
England, my own?
When shall he rejoice agen
Such a breed of mighty men
As come forward, one to ten,
To the song on your bugles blown,
England
Down the years on your bugles blown ? '
- H. E. MARSHALL
...............................................................................
Sample content from the book's seventy-eight chapters:
CANADA:
- How Lief the Son of Eric the Red Sailed into the West
- Westward! Westward! Westward!
- How a Breton Sailor Came to Canada
- The Story of Henry Hudson
- The Founding of Quebec
- The Adventures of LaSalle
-AUSTRALIA:
- "There is Nothing New Under the Sun"
- The Founding of Sydney
- The Adventures of George Bass and Matthew Flinders
- The First Traveller in Queensland
- The Finding of Gold
- The Bushrangers
NEW ZEALAND:
- How a Great White Bird Came to the Shores
- The Apostle of New Zealand
- How the Maoris Became the Children of the Great White Queen
-"The Heavenly Dawn" and "The Wild Cabbage Leaf" Make War
- The Flagstaff War
- The Storming of the Bat's Nest
SOUTH AFRICA:
- The Coming of the Dutch
- The Coming of the French
- The Coming of the British
- The Great Witch Doctor
- About the Black Napoleon
- The Story of a False Prophet
INDIA:
- Alexander the Great Invades India
- How Brave Men Went Sailing Upon Unknown Seas
- The First British Ambassador Goes to the Court of the Emperor of India
- The Hatred of the Dutch
- The French in India
- The First Afghan War
