The story of King Alfred . alwaysremain, the typical man of our race—call himAnglo-Saxon, call him American, call him Eng-lishman, call him Australian—the typical manof our race at his best and noblest. I like tothink that the face of the at hisbest and noblest is the face of Alfred. I amquite sure and certain that the mind of theAnglo-Saxon at his best and noblest is the mindof Alfred—that the aspirations, the hopes, thestandards of the Anglo-Saxon at his best andnoblest are the aspirations, the hopes, the stand-ards of Alfred. He is truly our leader, ourfounder, our king. When o
The story of King Alfred . alwaysremain, the typical man of our race—call himAnglo-Saxon, call him American, call him Eng-lishman, call him Australian—the typical manof our race at his best and noblest. I like tothink that the face of the at hisbest and noblest is the face of Alfred. I amquite sure and certain that the mind of theAnglo-Saxon at his best and noblest is the mindof Alfred—that the aspirations, the hopes, thestandards of the Anglo-Saxon at his best andnoblest are the aspirations, the hopes, the stand-ards of Alfred. He is truly our leader, ourfounder, our king. When our monument takesshape and form, let it somehow recognize thisgreat, this cardinal fact. Let it show somehow DEATH OF THE KING. 187 bv the example of Alfred the Anglo-Saxon at hisbest and noblest—here within the circle of thenarrow seas or across the ocean, wherever kingAlfreds language is spoken, wherever King Al-freds laws prevail, into whatever fair lands ofthe wide world King Alfreds descendants KING VLFRED. INDEX Adamnanus, Abbot, 39. /Et Haethum (Haddeby), 153. Alfred, army, 75, 105 ; at Athelney,91 ; childhood and education, 47,48, 66 ; death of, 104, 181 ; hismysterious disease, 69, 181 ; as aneducator, 140 ; genealogy, 19, 48 ;jewel of, 122 ; as a law-giver, 127,137; restores London, 101, 166,174 ; marriage, 66, 69 ; navy, 85,101, 104, 109 ; reforms of, 106 ; re-ligion, 91, 113, 131 ; succession of,65, 82 ; wars of, 72 ; writings of,17, 146. Angles, settlement in England, 27. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 16, 160;quoted passim. Architecture in Alfreds reign, 166. Army, the, 41. Army, Alfreds, 75. 105. Arnulphus the Pilgrim, 39. Ashdown, defeat of the Danes at, 79-Asser, Bishop of Sherborne, 14 ; quoted , 94; Alfred at, 91, 94 ; monastery at, 121, , king of Kent, brother of Alfred, 73, 77, 85, 109, 112, , Dialogues, 156. B. Bagsac, Danish king, 79. Baldwin of Flanders, 65. Basing, battle at, 81. Bede, Ecclesiast
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