Topography, botany, artistic knowledge are not less parts of the chronicler's equipment than philology, rhetoric, and philosophy; a newspaper is not beneath nor a traveller's gossip beyond his scope; architecture reveals somewhat which diplomacy conceals; an inscription is not more historical than the average temperature or the staple productions.

He complains in his letters that the tide has already turned, and that even in the army diplomacy fares better than real bravery.

I don't like this diplomacy game, but have to obey orders.

When I saw my nation, as a handful of brave men, forsaken to fight alone that immense battle for humanity; when I saw Russian diplomacy stealing, like secret poison, into our ranks, introducing treason into them;but let me not look back; it is all in vain; the past is past.

[Illustration: SECRET DIPLOMACY WIFE: "George, there are two strange men digging up the garden.