ABSTRACT
This chapter contains a wide variety of rich literature from before the First World War and was designed to give soldiers entertainment. It includes extracts from the works of Francis Bacon, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Wordsworth and Charles Dickens. The chapter together with A Book of Broadsheets 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 presents the story of Romeo and Juliet.
