recitations, the remainder can surely be made so.

A.H.M.






THE ROYAL RECITER.





PREFATORY.

True Patriotism is the outcome of National home-feeling and
self-respect.

Home-feeling is born of the loving associations and happy memories
which belong to individual and National experience; self-respect is
the result of a wise and modest contemplation of personal or National
virtues.

The man who does not respect himself is not likely to command the
respect of others. And the Nation which takes no pride in its history
is not likely to make a history of which it can be proud.

But self-respect involves self-restraint, and no man who wishes to