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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His ArtFormal and elaborate biographies Of actors are apt to be not the most inspiring kind Of literature._ When Herbert Tree died, it seemed to those who knew him best that Of such a biography he would not have cared to be the subject. There was, however, a clear need that one who had so distinguished himself in his art, and had been in himself so interesting a Character and so u...

Excerpt from MoreIn the memoirs Of Count privately printed last year, you will find, if you can gain access to them, many secrets told in a sprightly, yet most authoritative, manner, little that is incredible, little that is not amaz ing, nothing refutable. The Count has cast upon la baate politique, that stage without footlights, many lurid limes, illuminating for us the faces of all the players and even enabling us to understand something of...

Excerpt from Yet AgainIF I were seeing over a house, and found in every room an iron cage let into the wall, and were told by the caretaker that these cages were for me to keep lions in, I think I should Open my eyes rather wide. Yet nothing seems to me more natural than a fire in the grate.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproductio...

Excerpt from A SurveyYou say that you have always frowned on some of my drawings True, Madam and thank you for reminding me. Over some in every batch you have frowned, murmuring a fine and a favourite phrase of yours Not in the very best of taste. And I seem to find in all the drawings at which you have gently drawn the line a common denominator. In my youth, and indeed until quite recent years, the Court was a very dominant factor in your lif...

Excerpt from A Defence of CosmeticsSee them, those silent exquisites round the long table at Brook's, masked, all of them, lest the countenance should betray feeling, in quinze masks, through whose eyelets they sat peeping, peeping, while macao brought them riches or ruin! We can see them, those silent rascals, sitting there with their cards and their rouleaux and their wooden money bowls, long after the dawn had crept up St. James's and press...

Excerpt from The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired MenGeorge Hell. I will not trouble my little readers with a long recital of his great maugh tiness. But it were well they should know that he was greedy, destructive, and disobedi ent: I am afraid there is no doubt that he often sat up at Carlton House until long after bed-time, playing at games, and that he gen erally ate and drank more than was good for him. His fondness for fine cloth...

Excerpt from Zuleika Dobson: Or an Oxford Love StoryAt the door of the first-class waiting-room, aloof and venerable, stood the Warden of Judas. An ebon pillar of tradition seemed he, in his garb of old-fashioned cleric. Aloft, between the wide brim of his silk hat and the white extent of his shirt-front, appeared those eyes which hawks, that nose which eagles, had often envied. He supported his years on an ebon stick. He alone was worthy of t...

Excerpt from Seven MenIf Rothenstein had not been there, I should have revered Soames. Even as it was, I respected him. And I was very near indeed to reverence when he said he had another book coming out soon. I asked if I might ask what kind of book it was to be.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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