------------------------------------------------------------------------ By MEREDITH NICHOLSON The Valley of Democracy Illustrated by Walter Tittle "It is a book which could have been written only by a Westerner; and it is a book for every American, Westerner and Easterner, Northerner and Southerner, to read, mark, ponder, and inwardly digest."--_New York Times_. "The book radiates the spirit that makes the West fascinating."--_Outlook_. "His chapters are set forth with that same easy facility in letters which has marked his works in fiction."--_New York World_. "A notably serious and thoughtful study of the American mind, character, and tendencies in the Middle West.... It is a book of fascinating interest and of the greatest possible civic and patriotic value."--_New York Tribune_. "Meredith Nicholson has done a great work in this masterly study of the Middle West. It is a national, nay, more, an international service which is performed in these illuminating pages, for in interpreting America to Americans the author is also interpreting America, or a very considerable section of it, to the world at large."--_San Francisco Chronicle_. "It is a study of the Middle West--which is the 'Valley' indicated--a portrayal of its people, its life, and its activities so vivid as to have almost the effect of a moving picture."--_Indianapolis Star_. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, New York End of Project Gutenberg's Blacksheep! Blacksheep!, by Meredith Nicholson