The Americans

The Americans

[Transcribers notes: Missing page numbers represent blank pages. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been retained. Page 147 "." added ("Bishop Hardbrooke.") Page 170 "And" replacing "nd" ("And now a living thing.") Page 198 "." added ("Egerton.") Page 252 "Harry" replacing "arry" ("Harry Egerton.") Page 259 "." added ("Bishop Hardbrooke.") Page 259 "." added ("We have been busy.")] Of this series The Saxons, dealing with man's struggle for religious liberty, has already been published. For reasons that need not be given, it has been thought best to postpone The Slavs, which will present man's battle for political liberty, and offer The Americans, the theme of which is the industrial conflict that is now raging. The Hindoos, a drama of spiritual unfoldment, will come in its order. Scene: On the mountains in a timber region of north-western America. In every direction, as far as the eye can see, a wilderness of stumps with piles of brush black with age and sinking from sheer rottenness into the ground. Here and there a dead pine stands up high against the horizon. In the distance, left, cleaving the range and extending on back under an horizon of cold gray clouds, is seen the line of a river of which this whole region is apparently the watershed, for everywhere the land slopes toward it. In the remote distance, beyond the river, innumerable bare buttes, and beyond these a gray stretch of plains. Down the mountains, left, six or seven miles away, the river loops in and a portion of a town is seen upon its banks. At this end of the town, upon a hill overlooking the river, a large white mansion conspicuous for the timber about it. At the farther end, a huge red saw-mill occupies the centre of a vast field of yellow lumber piles, the tall black stack of the mill clearly outlined against the gray of the land beyond. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 41242
Author: Schoonmaker, Edwin Davies
Release Date: Oct 30, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English