A Welsh regiment sails for the Crimea, and the officer telling the story has left a marriage question unsettled at home. Grant wrote some ninety books and had soldiered himself; the value here is the eye for detail — the transport ships, the winter camp, the pointless orders — from a man who knew how armies actually work.

It begins on a Sunday night, when the week ahead sits on your chest like a stone you did not ask to carry. You want to pray, and you open your mouth, and nothing comes out, or worse, the same 2 worried sentences as last week. You look at your Bible and feel the weight of it, not the welcome, and the thought crosses your mind that you are too tired to meet God tonight. Somewhere in the busyness you once loved, the busyness became a burden, and your faith became 1 more job you are failing. T...

There is a heaviness you have been carrying that the people around you cannot see, and its presence is the reason you are holding this book. You may have opened it on a morning when getting out of bed felt like a negotiation, or on a night when sleep kept its distance and your thoughts would not stop circling. You may have spent years managing your sadness in secret, or you may have been handed this book by someone who loves you. However you arrived, the fact that you are reading these wor...

James Grant’s story of America’s last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this “carefully researched history…makes difficult economic concepts easy to understand, and it deftly mixes major events with interesting vignettes” (The Wall Street Journal).In 1920–1921, Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding met a deep economic slump by seeming to ignore it, implementing policies that most 21st century economists would call bac...

In "The Adventures of Rob Roy," James Grant presents a captivating exploration of the legendary Scottish outlaw, Rob Roy MacGregor, intertwining historical fact with engaging fiction. Grant's prose is characterized by its vivid imagery and adventurous spirit, drawing readers into the rugged Scottish Highlands during the tumultuous early 18th century. The novel juxtaposes themes of loyalty, honor, and the struggle for survival against the backdrop of political unrest and clashing cultures, ...

The excited speakers were a Peer, Cosmo, Lord Fettercairn, his wife, the Lady thereof, and their youngest son, Lennard Melfort, a captain of the line, home on leave from India, who had been somewhat timidly venturing to break—knowing the inordinate family vanity of his parents—we say to break the news of his love for a girl possessed of more beauty than this world's goods; and, in his excitement and indignation, his lordship's usual easy, indolent, and drawling way was forgotten now when a...

I was just in the act of humming the above verse, when the following announcement was put into my hand—"Regimental Orders.—Head-quarters, Maidstone, December 31st. "As the regiment is to be held in readiness for foreign service in spring, captains of troops will report to Lieutenant and Adjutant Studhome, for the information of the commanding officer, on the state of the saddlery, the holsters and lance-buckets; and the horses must be all re-shod under the immediate inspection of the veter...

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This soldier, whose name, from the circumstances connected with his remarkable story, daring courage, and terrible fate, is still remembered in the regiment, in the early history of which he bears so prominent a part, was one of the first who enlisted in Captain Campbell of Finab's independent band of the Reicudan Dhu, or Black Watch, when the six separate companies composing this Highland force were established along the Highland Border in 1729, to repress the predatory spirit of certain ...

'You are a dear and good-hearted jewel, Mary!' said Ellinor. 'How you can constantly face and soothe the sorrows and miseries of all these poor people, I cannot conceive; I am not selfish, I hope, and yet the frequent task would he too much for me.' 'You are not without a tender heart,' replied Mary, as she set down her little hand-basket, now empty. 'I have paid but one visit to-day—a very sorrowful one—and I am glad to be back again in our own pretty home. When I saw old Elspat the funer...

Many a wife, mother, and maid watched the progress of our troops from point to point in Egypt, from the bombardment of Alexandria, with the subsequent landing, up to the last telegram which announced that the army had begun its auspicious night march from Kassassin towards Tel-el-Kebir, but none could do so with more anxiety than had Olive Raymond and Eveline. To them and to how many loving hearts at home were the next telegrams fraught with terror and anxiety! Olive was free to rush to th...

I wonder why Heaven sent us into this world to face the mortifications we have to endure? "Do not say this, Greville, dearest; it is not for us to judge; we have but to suffer and endure, and be thankful for life, for health, and that we are not worse off than we are." "Thankful for life!" exclaimed the man, bitterly. "Why should I be thankful for a life of poverty, obscurity, and trouble?" "Trouble is sent, as the preacher tells us, to make us better and draw us closer to God. It is 'not ...