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Twenty-two years ago the enterprise of Horace Marshall & Son produceda series of small books known as "The Story of the Empire Series."These volumes rendered a great service in bringing home to thecitizens of the Empire in a simple and intelligible form theircommunity of interest, and the romantic history of the development ofthe British Empire.
I was asked more than twenty-one years ago to write the volume whichdealt with Newfoundland. I did so. The little book which was theresult has been for many years out of print. I have been asked by myfriends in Newfoundland and elsewhere to bring it up to date for thepurpose of a Second Edition. The publishers assented to this proposal,and this volume is the result.
The book, of course, never pretended to be anything but a slightsketch. An attempt has been made—while errors have been corrected andthe [4]subject matter has been brought up to date—to maintain suchcharacter as it ever possessed.
I shall be well rewarded for any trouble I have taken if it isrecognized by my friends in Newfoundland that the reproduction of thislittle book places on record an admiration for, and an interest in,our oldest colony which has endured for considerably more thantwenty-one years.
BIRKENHEAD.
House of Lords,
May 1920.