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The end of the long nineteenth century: Kipling familiarly quoted, goose step through the metropolis, cinematic prose, and pastoral riverscape with gunnery

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The Sun (New York), October 1, 1909, pages 1 and 2. The occasion was the combined centennial of Robert Fulton and tercentennial of Henry Hudson.

The German cruiser Hertha at anchor in the Hudson. Detroit Publishing Company Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016795616/.

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