Inniskilling Dragoons, who, on their return from the Pole in
March, 1912, willingly walked to his death in a blizzard to try
and save his comrades beset with hardship."

All this was done, said, and written, very nobly by all concerned.

In St. Paul's Cathedral there lies a recumbent effigy of General Gordon,
who gave his life for the honour of England at Khartoum, and upon it
are engraven these words:--

"He gave his strength to the weak, his substance to the poor, his
sympathy to the suffering, his heart to God."

Even the concentrated terseness of Latin cannot surpass these
examples of the power of the simplest and shortest English sentences
to penetrate to the heart.

English can be used, by those who master it as an organ of expression,
to convey deep emotion under perfect control, than which nothing is
more moving, nothing better calculated to refine the mind, nothing
more certain to elevate the character.

Whenever a man has something fine to communicate to his fellow-men
he has but to use English without affectation, honestly and simply, and
he is in possession of the most splendid vehicle of human thought in
the world.

All the truly great writers of English speak with simplicity from
their hearts, they all evince a spirit of unaffected reverence, they
all teach us to look up and not down, and by the nobility of their