It is not British because it was born in Britain, just as little as Christianity is Jewish because it came into the world in Judea.'"-- Else Meerstedt.
Now that we see it all but completed, we think this book singularly wanting in reference to The General's frequent merriness of mood.

We have thought it needless to insert any of the amusing anecdotes that could have been so abundantly culled from any of his visits to any country had we not been so anxious to select from the small space at our disposal what was most important.
Nor have we wished to present the reader with the portrait of an infallible genius, or a saint who never said or did anything that he afterwards regretted.

A victim almost all his life to extreme indigestion, it is indeed to all who knew him best marvellous that he could endure so much of misery without more frequently expressing in terms of unpleasant frankness his irritation at the faults and mistakes of others.

But really after his death as during his life we have been far too busy in trying to help in accomplishing his great lifework to note these details of human frailty..