The Victors

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Excerpt from The Victors: A Romance of Yesterday Morning This Afternoon The Great American Novel, so frequently referred to by the Press, will be looked for in vain. It never can be written, because America is so vast, its interests are so various, its activities so far-reaching, that even Honore de Balzac, with all his forty or sixty volumes, could have done little more than draw the outlines of such a civilisation, had he been born a citizen of the United States instead of a citizen of France. The present volume, then, is merely a slight sketch of certain incidents that have come within range of my own limited observation and experience. It has been written and revised during the past five years, on the island of Manhattan in Eastern America, the island of England in Western Europe, the island of Capri in Southern Italy and the island of Islay in the Highlands of Scotland. Working on these islands, I have attempted to depict, in a measure, certain affairs that are supposed to interest a continent, aspiring to be the accurate reporter which early newspaper discipline exacted, rather than the imaginative novelist, so deservedly popular in our day. Whatever difference of opinion may exist regarding various American institutions, the world at large must admire the educational system of the united States. The three master steps of learning, Public School, High School, and University, may be mounted by any energetic youth, and no toll-gate bars his way. The only tribute expected from him is diligence and good conduct. It is my ambition to associate this book with the name of the University of Michigan, near whose home the story's action begins. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.