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The state as a rootless transient

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From: Jerusalem Post
Date: 20060807
Author:MARK STEYN

MARK STEYN
Jerusalem Post
08-07-2006
Headline: The state as a rootless transient
Byline: MARK STEYN
Edition; Daily
Section: Opinion
Page: 13

Monday, August 7, 2006 -- One of my favorite all-but-unknown books is The Heart Of Princess Osra, written by Anthony Hope in 1896. Hope hit the big time with The Prisoner Of Zenda and its boffo sequel Rupert Of Hentzau, two rip-roaring yarns in which an English dilettante twice contrives to save from usurpers the throne of Ruritania.

The Heart Of Princess Osra is also set in Hope's fictional Mitteleuropean kingdom, but this time a century and a half earlier ...

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