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THE RAID OF DOVER:

A Romance Of The Reign Of Woman:

A.D. 1940.

by

The Author of "A Time of Terror," "The Devil's
Peepshow," &c.


   "If that Old England fall
   Which Nelson left so great----"

   LORD TENNYSON.


London: King, Sell, & Olding, Limited,
27, Chancery Lane, W.C.
Portsmouth: Holbrook & Son, Limited.
1910.



AUTHOR'S NOTE.


_While this Forecast in Fiction has been running as a Serial,
the writer has realised that in some respects it may be open to
misconstruction. Patriotism, not pessimism, is its real keynote._

 "This England never did, nor never shall,
 Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,
 But when it first did help