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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 Gentlemen of the House of Commons, Vol. 2 of 2The art of Petition had been first taught by Hampden and Pym. It was now practised for party purposes by the managers who were supreme at St. Stephen's. From all points of the compass, daily poured in at Westminster petitions, thanking the House for all it had lately done and pledging the Signatories to the last to assist it with life and fortune. A few days later, February 6th, 1649, ...

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 ...

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 Personal Forces of the PeriodThe following sketches are of course intentionally confined to persons now living. They cannot therefore exhaust all the personal forces of the period, seeing that many of these continue to be operative after the individuals in which they were embodied have passed away.For the reason just stated, though the book was still being written while Mr. Gladstone yet breathed, the anticipated issue of his illn...

Excerpt from Politics and LettersAt the time of which I now speak, The Daily Telegraph, with the possible exception of The Times, of the writers for which the outside world, even of journalism, knew little or nothing, possessed the most.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...

Excerpt from Masters of English Journalism: A Study of Personal ForcesThere are several good histories of, or books mainly. About, newspapers. Some Of these have not ignored the name. And work of those who have written for them. The individual, however, in all cases has been sub ordinated to the enterprise. Primarily, and as far as possible ex'clusively, true at all points to its title, the present work deals with the personal agencies Of whic...

Excerpt from Pillars of the Empire: Sketches of Living Indian and Colonial Statesmen, Celebrities, and OfficialsThe Sketches of which this volume consists appeared originally in the Home News, where they were so well received that, at a time when India and the Colonies are of exceptional interest to Englishmen, it has been considered worth while to publish them in their present shape.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of tho...

Excerpt from Society in the Country HouseIntroduction - The arrangement of the book in its Chrono logical and geographical relations explained - The country house unknown till Chaucer's day - Why - The franklin Baronial despotism - How the country house grew.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...

Excerpt from Edward Bulwer, First Baron Lytton of Knebworth: A Social, Personal, and Political MonographHe was good enough to recognize these early germs of acquaintanceship, and, in the most gratuitously kind and.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 techn...

Excerpt from Platform, Press, Politics Play: Being Pen and Ink Sketches of Contemporary Celebrities From the Tone to the Thames, Viâ Avon and IsisA friendly "Punch" Reviewer, when noticing one of my earliest contributions to the periodical press after the beginnings of slow recovery from an illness brought on by twenty-five years overwork, kindly wished me "health and happiness, " humorously adding, "All will look forward now to what Mr. Escot...

Excerpt from Social Transformations of the Victorian Age, 1897: A Survey of Court and CountryThis new book being, like its predecessor, not a history, but a series of different views from a common standpoint, the sketches of national life and character as well as of national institutions at work, have in all cases.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comTh...

Excerpt from Randolph Spencer-Churchill, as a Product of His Age: Being a Personal and Political MonographDuring the greater part of Lord Randolph Churchill's public course, the circumstances of my life as an industrious article-writer on the daily and weekly press, established frequent points of contact between him and myself, which gradually expanded into a mutual acquaintance of a rather intimate kind. Throughout all the period now referred...

Excerpt from King Edward and His CourtRoyalty's personal friends - The Duke of Cambridge - The Duke of Connaught - T he King in private life - The King as head of society The Duke and Duchess of Argyll - The Countess of Cadogan - Enlarged ideas of English society - Royalty and learning-king Edward's atti tude towards the Church.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgot...

Excerpt from Anthony Trollope: His Work, Associates and Literary OriginalsHE beginning of my very juvenile acquaintance with Anthony Trollope has been incidentally, but naturally, mentioned in the body of the present.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 te...