... a great imperial spectacular in its own right and was accompanied by another conference of the Empire's chief ministers. The music halls played 'Soldiers of the Queen' and 'Son's of the sea. In 1899 Rudyard Kipling issued the most famous of his calls to Englishmen to fulfil their destiny: Take up the white man's burden- Send forth the best ye breed- Go bind your son's to exile To serve your captive's need; To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild- Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half-child. Something about the Empire stirred the British people at this time and this feeling gave rise to a number of patriotic songs that outlasted the late-Victorians- such as 'God save the King', 'Rule Britannia' and 'Hearts of oak'. Reactions from many other nations were generally positive. The French newspaper Le Figaro declared that Rome itself had been 'equalled; if not surpassed, by the power in which Canada, Australia, India, in ...

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