Front matter
Reading edition
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. H. GARDNER SOPER
NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1916
Copyright, 1916, by The Century Co.
Published, September, 1916
Dauntless the slughorn to my lips I set, and blew "Child Roland to the dark tower came." —Robert Browning
TO W. W. D. H. "God forbid that I should do this thing. If our time be come, let us die manfully for our brethren And let us not stain our honour." I Maccabees, ix, 10.
