Algeria from within

The Author
BY R. V. C. BODLEY
ILLUSTRATED
INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1927, by The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Printed in the United States of America
PRINTED AND BOUND BY BRAUNWORTH & CO., INC. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
To MY MANY FRIENDS OF ALL NATIONALITIES WHO INHABIT ALGERIA
This is not a preface but merely a few words to state that in writing these pages I have in no way tried to criticize the French administration or to discuss the Arab from any point of view but that of a spectator.
I have no political feelings, few ambitions beyond living simply and far away from the world, and if this work exists at all, it is because I have wished that people should know Algeria as it really is.
Once upon a time I had great ideas about worldly position and the sound of long titles; I believed that greatness was to be achieved in the capitals of Europe or on the battle-fields, but I know now that this is not so. Worldly positions and great titles are the weary outcome of much money laboriously reaped, and the heroes of battle-fields pass unnoticed in the street.