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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 ...

Excerpt from The Being Personal Reminiscences of the University Amateur Dramatic Club, Cambridge: Written by F. C. BurnandThe most celebrated non-academic University Dra matic Society in Cambridge, called the Cambridge Garrick Club, was started in 1835. Among its members it numbered very few University men, and these were graduates, professors, and fellows of Col leges, who were elected, not gm? University men, but as Residents in the town of ...

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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 ...

Excerpt from Records and Reminiscences, Personal and General, Vol. 2He had no idea, it seems, that Thackeray had made so much money as enabled him to keep his own carriage. Thackeray replied that he would let him know when the bill came in, and so the Professor, under the impression that Thackeray hired his carriage for occasional outings, consented to defer his contribution until the livery-stable keeper should send in his account. Charles Ke...

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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 ...

Excerpt from Humbug!: A Comedy, in Two ActsTraff. Let s look. (edward gives him the book and rises) Come, Dolan isn't a bad fellow.Edward. (at back of fauteuil, looking over aylmer), A hearty humbug. Noise goes a great way towards a character for honesty.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 work. Fo...

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 My HealthIf I ever (again) meet Agatha, and we sit out a dance or two in retirement, and if I commence to talk to her from the depths of my heart, won't Bigsby' 5 words recur to her mind suddenly (just as one suddenly thinks of funny things m church), and won't she say to herself' He's running to fat?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThi...

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 Punch, 1895, Vol. 108You will have. Of course, in attendance upon you several heads of departments. These gentlemen will say nothing, but will look wonders. If you are at loss for figures or facts. You will glance at them and make a bold statement. That daring declaration will, of course, be qualified with the announcement that it is made to the best of your belief. You will turn your face towards the heads. And they will receive ...

Excerpt from Chikkin Hazard: A Novel by Charles Readit and Dion BounceycoreWhy have you brought me here i' demanded Job, in a hollow voice.Why ha! Ha! Laughed the elder, grimly, and both his eyes shooting forth a murderous fire, he rose from his seat and waved a keen-edged hatchet above his head. Job turned deadly pale. He could scarcely raise his glass to his lips as he said with a sickly smile, Always the same lighthearted creature, father.A...

Excerpt from The Zzg or Zig Zag Guide Round and About the Bold and Beautiful Kentish CoastWell - informed persons familiar with the geographi cal situation of Calais and Boulogne are, generally speaking, under a strange misapprehension as to the relative positions of Margate and Ramsgate, which are not Siamese Twins. They are not in separable as were Castor and Pollux, Balbus and Caius, Box and Cox, William and Mary, Hero and Leander, and othe...

Excerpt from Punch, 1901: Vols. CXX-CXXIManager, I plead the occasion as sufficient apology for my appearance, with these few inadequate words, before the curtain which, by the time this number appears, will have already risen on the First Scene of the Great World-wide Drama of The New Century. F. C. B.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a...

Excerpt from Punch, Vol. 130: January-June, 1906IT was an ancient brigand - chief, And a horny eye had he, And the lethal weapons that lined his belt Would have stocked an armoury.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 work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the...

Excerpt from Punch, Vol. 126: January-June, 1904Mrs. C. I see. But before we go any further I may as well explain our methods. You don't mind my being frank?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 work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the o...

Excerpt from Punch, 1890, Vol. 98Fear not, Saturn! Punch's bolt Arms Right Order, not Revolt Dread no fratricidal wars From this 'star' among the Stars 1.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 work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the orig...

Excerpt from Happy ThoughtsImpressed by the river and the gardens, I had originally noted down my jottings as Happy Thoughts collected in Happy Hours, and intended merely a few chapters of observations, not on men but insects, a method of teaching by illustration of which I need hardly say I am not the originator, who indeed had fair warrant for noting it down as a Very Happy Thought. Somewhere about the third or fourth chapter this idea was a...