THE GERMANS’ ENGLISHMAN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16590, 12 November 1919, Page 4

THE GERMANS’ ENGLISHMAN.

The semi-official Gorman Gazette publishes the first of a series of articles on England and English thought. Tho article says:— Wo knew too little about tho Englishman. In Goethe’s time he was the chock-suited travelling lord; to the reader of the incomparable Dickens ho was the jovial, rotund landlord or country squire, with a taste for pie and punch. We, in our time, were faced with a well-bred thm-lippcd type of men which deemed itself to be tho chosen race of God, and strode easily, but with been eye, over seas and continents, and with what seemed little-in the way of inner organisation, enjoyed an incomparable harmony of nationality and) of private and public life. AVe busied ourselves with finding out and accentuating the unavoidable dis cords m its expression of life, tho mis- ■ takes m its character. But something else is needed if one is to know one’s on r^Sh. dlsWe, ' y ofth — of