Excerpt from The Romance of a Red Cross Hospital The appalling news which appeared in all the morning papers had fortunately not interfered with the attendance at Mrs. Morrison's concert in the Herbert Memorial School-house, Churlington. War - War - War - that was the word that thundered from headline to headline in every paper. To glance at the headlines on any page of any paper was enough to bring before one's eyes, as in a panoramic picture, the lurid details of a campaign. The large black capitals, three words to a line, had surely the semblance of a battery of heavy guns, and the tall thin letters a little lower down in the array of headlines had all the precision of a troop of light horse carrying lances erect but looking wickedly ready to be lowered for the charge. Anyone reading between the lines - the serried ranks of the suggestive headlines - would have perceived the many details of an army corps above the marching myriads of infantry in even columns of "long primer" or "brevier." 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.