This is a book which will spur the young to fresh and higher endeavor. It is NOT a book for those who are cynical and those who do not believe in love and those who are afraid to dream.

Harry Lauder's life story is an unbelievable story of hardship and lowly beginnings, hard work, faith, ingenuity and bravery. Alive with incidents, told with gusto and warmth and humor and competency, this spirited telling of a man's life and times evokes a heart-touching picture of a great personage.

For this is a book which is more than the story of one man. It is the story of a changing era. Sir Harry Lauder with his pipe, his glengarry, his twisted blackthorn stick, is a vital, and arresting, and inspiring figure. With his songs he bridges yesterday and today. In the midst of a world at war, he stands the very symbol of a dauntless and indomitable Scotland.

When, during World War I, all his hopes shattered by the heart-breaking message from the War Office, that his only son, John, had died in action, Harry Lauder immediately went out to sing and dance for the boys in camps all over the British Isles, he proved himself "a heroic little figure in kilts."

Winston Churchill recently called him "The Grand Old Minstrel." American fighting men stationed in Scotland call him "Harry," forgetting their homesickness-as their father did back in '14.

From the dust jacket