IN THE HARBOR AT NIGHT

PAINTED BY IRVING WARD

THE FOUR FEARS OF OUR GENERAL

Souvenirs of Childhood

The following conversation took place one evening upon one of those points of Algeria where we Frenchmen have had to fight so desperately and so often. We had encamped, or rather we had bivouacked, in a charming little valley at the foot of a mountain, which, picturesque as it was, suggested only evil things.