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First published in 1869, this bestselling work argues for British imperial domination, despite its author being a Liberal and Radical politician.

Excerpt from Old Plays, Vol. 2 of 6: Being a Continuation of Dodsley's Collection, With Notes Critical and Explanatory It is perhaps needless to observe that the plot of this play, like the preceding, is taken from the mythological writers. In presenting to the public the last of Lyly's, which will be inserted in the present collection, it may not be unnecessary to state what was probably the intention of the poet, in fixing upon stories appa...

Excerpt from Two Recess Speeches A Speech delivered at Hammersmith Toin Hall, on the 7th of September, 1874, at Foresters' Dinner, the Vicar of Hammersmith in the Chair. Mr. Chairman, - You have asked me to perform tonight a difficult task. You have told me to make a political speech which shall be suitable to a non-political occasion, and that, while I am to talk politics as much as I please, I am not to assume that the whole, or even the m...

Excerpt from The Fall of Prince Florestan of Monaco I am Prince Florestan of Wurtemberg, born in 1850, and consequently now of the mature age of twenty-four. I might call myself "Florestan II." but I think it better taste for a dethroned prince, especially when he happens to be a republican, to resume the name that is in reality his own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more...

Excerpt from Problems of Greater Britain, Vol. 1 of 2 In 1866-67, on leaving Cambridge, I made a journey round the world on which I wrote a book of travel, the name of which has lived while the book is wholly out of date. Owing to the success of the title of Greater Britain, the work, since the cessation of its sale as a new book, has continued to be in demand - a demand which has shown no tendency to decrease with the lapse of years, - but h...

Excerpt from Problems of Greater Britain, Vol. 2 of 2 First make sure our ground with regard to Indian defence. There is another reason for separate treatment of the Reasons for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruc...

Excerpt from Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries, During 1866-7 From the bows of the steamer Saratoga, on the 20th June, 1866, I caught sight of the low works of Fort Monroe, as, threading her way between the sandbanks of Capes Charles and Henry, the ship pressed on, under sail and steam, to enter Chesapeake Bay. Our sudden arrival amid shoals of sharks and kingiish, the keeping watch for flocks of canvas-back d...

Excerpt from Old Plays, Being a Continuation of Dodsley's Collection, Vol. 1 of 6: With Notes, Critical and ExplanatoryBut when they entered the quiet scenes of do mestic life, they found sympathies in every ho som. But on this subject the editor could writeon till he had wearied the patience of his less enthusiastic reader: he will only therefore se mark, that his observations are strictly con~ fined to the dramatic writers: the works of the ...

Excerpt from Old Plays, Being a Continuation of Dodsley's Collection, Vol. 5 of 6: With Notes, Critical and ExplanatoryThe address by N. Richards to our author, should properly have been prefixed to this play, but as this and the preceding were published in one volume, in 1667, and it is there of course found in its present situation. I thought it unnecessary to remove it, particularly as it is now in a degree connected with his life.About the...

Excerpt from Imperial DefenceCobden, in his first work, England, Ireland, and America, ' published in 1835, expressed the opinion that at some future election we may probably see the test of no foreign politics applied to those who offer to become the representatives of free constituencies. The great services which Cobden rendered to the state have given weight to all his utterances.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thou...

Excerpt from Old English Plays, Vol. 4: Being a Selection From the Early Dramatic Writers About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the...

It is no easy matter to spread Christianity among the Cinghalese, the inventors of Buddhism, the most ancient and most widely-spread of all the religions of the world. Every Buddhist firmly believes in the potential perfection of man, and is incapable of understanding the ideas of original sin and redemption. -From the chapter "Maritime Ceylon" After leaving the University of Cambridge in 1866, Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet, embarke...

Excerpt from The British Empire The British Empire, with its recent ex tensions ih the form of protectorates and Spheres of in¿uence, has an area of nearly four Europes, public revenues of 260 mil lions sterling (without counting the vast sums raised in the United Kingdom by local rates), a population of 400 millions, and half the sea-borne trade of the world. It stands at the top of almost every scale by which. About the Publisher Forgotte...

Excerpt from Old English Plays, Vol. 6: Being a Selection From the Early Dramatic Writers About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the...

Excerpt from Greater Britain, Vol. 2 of 2: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866 and 1867 N 0 two countries in the world are so wholly distinct as Australia and New Zealand. The islands of New Zealand are inhabited by Polynesians, the Australian continent by negroes. New Zealand is ethnologically nearer to America, Australia to Africa, than New Zealand to Australia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundre...

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