Excerpt from French Perspectives This change, as I saw it further reflected in a certain distinguished French household the fol lowing winter, I have tried to suggest in one of the last sketches in the present volume, Signs of the Times. The Epilogue, The Merciers at Topsbridge, will indicate that of the war itself I have had only a transatlantic impression. Most of the papers were written in days that now seem unbelievably felicitous, the occasional record of a series of peaceful French Visits which date back to 1904. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.