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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 The Middle of the RoadFor the twentieth time Bertram Pollard went to the door of the little room he called his study and listened. He heard nothing but the Slow tick-tock of a grandfather's clock at the end of the narrow hall, that, and his own breathing, which seemed loud.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of ...

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 From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917Abank and not from the point of view of a swimmer breasting each wave or going down in it. Regimental Officers and men know more of the ground in which they live for a while before they go forward over the shell-craters to some barren slope where machine-guns are hidden below the clods of soil, or a line of concrete blockhouses heaped up with timber and sand bags on one of the ridges. They know w...

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 Germans on the SommeBut the months passed, and Verdun still held out above piles of German corpses on its slopes, . And in June Germany looked East and saw a great menace. The Russian offensive was becoming violent. German generals on the Russian fronts sent desperate messages for help. Send us more men they said and from the Western front four divisions containing 39 battalions were sent to them.They must have been sent grudg...

Excerpt from Men and Women of the French RevolutionSo much for the text of this book. However worthy or worthless, I confess gladly that it does not compare in interest with the illustrations. They are the excuse and the value of the volume. These contemporary French prints, mostly reproduced for the first time in this country, are surpassingly interesting, and to Mr. Joseph Grego, who, for the purpose of this book, so kindly lent the original...

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 Troubadour: Selections From English VerseThe poetry is of the best. Not a piece has been included but has received the crowning testimony of time, or bears the imprint of a master's name. The book would be a large one that would include a hundredth part of that great collection of master pieces which is the birthright of every man of British breed, but although the present volume has no claim to such ambition it is such a coll...

Excerpt from The Pilgrim's Progress to CultureIt is for this reason that I say to my Pilgrims, who wish to progress, start by getting the acquaintance of some of the world's heroes and heroines. And for a beginning I advise my friends to go to Plutarch, whose words I have quoted above. His Lives have been a source of inspiration to eighteen centuries of the world's leaders. They are for all nations and all ages. No writings Of classical antiqu...

Excerpt from Facts and Ideas: Short Studies of Life and LiteratureSuccess is always a pleasant introduction, both for men and books. I may therefore best introduce this small volume by saying that the short essays contained in it have already had a successful career before reaching their present and perhaps, as some may think, unmerited dignity of book publication.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and c...

Excerpt from Cities of Refuge: A NovelThree soldiers were talking - between long silences behind one of the baggage wagons of an army in retreat. They were Russians. Behind them and in front were men like themselves, marching out of step, and other wagons, and guns, and ambulances, and farm carts with wounded men lying in the straw. There was the shuf¿e Of tired feet, a jingle of harness, a creaking of wheels, the shrill squeak of unoiled axle...

Excerpt from Oliver's Kind WomenI have said that he had ambition, temperament, and a Spirit of adventure. By ambition I do not mean that he aspired to be a millionaire or a Prime Minister. In spite Of youth he had set himself limits, and they were well within the bounds of moderation. In the Wastrel Club (of Greek Street, Soho), where once a week he sat with a few Of his kindred spirits, he said more than once, through a haze of tobacco smoke,...

Excerpt from The Individualist: A NovelBefore the boy went with this note the mistress took him by the arm, pulling him towards her and rumpling his hair, in Spite of his shout of protest and his endeavours to twist from her strong white hand. A shrill burst of laughter rattled the school windows, renewed when, after a pat on his chubby cheek, the boy wriggled himself free, and with all his dignity gone made a dash for the door, and so escaped...

Excerpt from More That Must Be ToldThe statesmen of Europe - English, French, Ger man, Russian, and others - might have allied themselves with the new idealism stirring among the common folk of Europe. Some of them, indeed, paid lip service to those ideals of international peace, and with elaborate insincerity, smiling with cynicism up their sleeves, pro posed resolutions at The Hague to restrict the horrors of war and to sprinkle its stench w...

Excerpt from Founders of the EmpireHampshire, Berkshire, and Devonshire), the other kings acknowledged his authority over them, and he became the first Over-lord or King of all England.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 reconstruc...

Excerpt from People of Destiny: Americans as I Saw Them, at Home and AbroadFirst time when the ordinary life of that City of Adventure - always so vital and dynamic in activity - was intensified by the emotion of historic days. The war was over, and the warriors were coming home with the triumph of victory as the reward of courage, but peace was still delayed and there had not yet crept over the spirits of the people the staleness and disillus...

Excerpt from More That Must Be ToldLooking back at the three years Of history after the Armistice - three years of blundering, moral degradation and reaction to the lowest traditions of national politics - the most tolerant Of minds examining into the causes of that evil time must formulate a grave indictment against one company Of men. Arraigned before an honest jury of public opinion they are a fairly small gang of notorious persons, politic...

Excerpt from An Historical Account of Compendious and Swift WritingMined (if I mig Olit be indulged a Liberty of fo doing) to in fcribe it to You, who are di ftinguifhed by nothing more remarkably, than great Ta lents, and anfwerable Inclina tions for doing publick, and private Good and from whom I have received a long Series of Favours, the Value of which has been not a little encreafed, by a manner of conferring them.About the PublisherForgo...