If Youth but Knew! - Egerton Castle - Bog

"Is it not," remarks Fiddler Hans the wanderer, somewhere in these pages, "instructive to see how the ruler of Westphalia passes his time while the best manhood of his country is warring for the Empire-burnt in Spain, frozen in Russia?" Few people have cared, it would seem, to study that little chapter of history, the rule of Jerome in Westphalia; yet it is curious enough-as a record of human folly, if for no other reason.