Memories & Portraits 回忆与肖像
CHAPTER I. THE FOREIGNERAT HOME"This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin\' o\'t."Two recent books (1) one by Mr. Grant White on England, one onFrance by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have setpeople thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughtsshould arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of thatUnited Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling somany different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts,from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from theBlack Country to the Moor of Rannoch.
CHAPTER I. THE FOREIGNERAT HOME"This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin\' o\'t."Two recent books (1) one by Mr. Grant White on England, one onFrance by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have setpeople thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughtsshould arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of thatUnited Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling somany different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts,from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from theBlack Country to the Moor of Rannoch.