ABSTRACT

This chapter talks about A Book of Broadsheets that makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H. M. Forces serving in the trenches of World War I. It contains a wide variety of rich literature from before the war and was designed to give soldiers entertainment. There are several persons who have many pleasures and entertainments in their possession which they do not enjoy. It is therefore a kind and good office to acquaint them with their own happiness, and turn their attention to such instances of their good fortune which they are apt to overlook. Persons in the married state often want such a monitor, and pine away their days, by looking upon the same condition in anguish and murmur which carries with it in the opinion of others a complication of all the pleasures of life, and a retreat from its inquietudes.