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Excerpt from The Eighth Year: A Vital Problem of Married LifeIt was Sir Francis Jeune, afterwards Lord St. Helier, and President of the Divorce Court, who first called attention to the strange significance of the Eighth Year of married life. "The Eighth Year, " he said, "is the most dangerous year in the adventure of marriage."Afterwards, in the recent Royal Commission on Divorce, this curious fact was again alluded to in the evidence, and it ...

Excerpt from Australasia, Vol. 1For this reason the Portuguese were very careful to keep the secret of their discoveries in the South seas, and they cleverly disguised their charts so that the actual position of the Australian coast was wrongly indicated, and this made the charts useless to all navigators except their own, who knew how to read them correctly by a secret code of explanation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds ...

Excerpt from The Struggle in Flanders on the Western Front, 1917The year began with the German retreat from the Somme battlefields. It was a withdrawal for strategical reasons the Shortening of the enemy's line and the saving of his man-power - but also a retreat because it was forced upon the enemy by the greatness of his losses in the Somme fight ing. He would not have left the Bapaume Ridge and\all his elaborate defences down to Peronne and...

Excerpt from Unchanging QuestMrs. Lambert, a bustling, organising lady who happened to be the daughter of an obscure peer, though she dressed almost as shabbily as some of the ~charwomen, did her best in a cheery way to make her guests mix, and served out tea and coffee, sandwiches and buns, indefatigably, while she snatched little conversations, on the political situation and the latest measures of social reform, with professors, journalists,...

Excerpt from The Street of AdventureThis novel of journalistic life in London was written ten years ago. To me, and to those characters in the book who still survive, that seems a life-time back. Since then I have seen two wars - the Balkan war which was the storm-cloud in Europe heralding the universal deluge, and the Great War itself which has left the world bleeding from many wounds, and the soul of the world stricken by the remembrance of ...

Excerpt from Since Then: The Disturbing Story of the World at PeaceThat struggle for peace, which now seems assured for a fair spell of human progress, unless the world goes mad again, is one of the forward movements of humanity, and the recovery of Europe from all that ruin that was left by the war is almost miraculous. It is half-forgotten history now, although so recent. Most of it is blurred in a vague remembrance. It is indeed extraordina...

Excerpt from Since Then: The Disturbing Story of the World at PeaceThat struggle for peace, which now seems assured for a fair spell of human progress, unless the world goes mad again, is one of the forward movements of humanity, and the recovery of Europe from all that ruin that was left by the war is almost miraculous. It is half-forgotten history now, although so recent. Most of it is blurred in a vague remembrance. It is indeed extraordina...

Excerpt from The Balkan War: Adventures of War With Cross and CrescentA battle is soon fought, soon won, and soon lost. It is, as a rule, on such an extended front that no man may see but a little corner of it. But the drama of war is more than that. It is in what goes before the battle and What follows it. It is the strange amazing drama of great peoples suddenly breaking away from.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thou...

Excerpt from Beauty and Nick: A Novel of the Stage and the Home the Artistic Temperament in Fateful ActionNicholas Barton was born with a queer temperament. He was one of those who think a great deal but say very little. He was a dreamer, something, perhaps, of a poet. At least beneath all his quietude and reserve there was a great well of emotion, with deep waters which threatened to rise and overwhelm him when they were stirred by kindness o...

Excerpt from The Way to Victory, Vol. 1: The MenaceAbout 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 original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in ...

Excerpt from The Unknown Warrior: Burial in Westminster AbbeyThe Unknown Warrior! Was it young Jack, perhaps, who had never been found? Was it one of those fellows in the battalion that moved up through Ypres before the height of the battle in the bogs? Men were smoking, this side of Ypres. One could see the glow of their cigarette ends as they were halted round the old mill house at Vlamertinghe. It talud after that, beating sharply on the ti...

Excerpt from The Way to Victory, Vol. 1: The MenaceAbout 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 original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in ...

Excerpt from The Unknown Warrior: Burial in Westminster AbbeyThe Unknown Warrior! Was it young Jack, perhaps, who had never been found? Was it one of those fellows in the battalion that moved up through Ypres before the height of the battle in the bogs? Men were smoking, this side of Ypres. One could see the glow of their cigarette ends as they were halted round the old mill house at Vlamertinghe. It talud after that, beating sharply on the ti...

Excerpt from The Battles of the SommeIN this book I have put together the articles which I have written day by day for more than three months, Since that first day of July 1916 when hundreds of thousands of British troops rose out of the ditches held against the enemy for nearly two years of trench warfare, advanced over open country upon the most formidable system of defences ever organized by great armies, and began a series of battles as fi...

Excerpt from The Soul of the WarOnly a few weeks before this black shadow of war had loomed up with its deadly menace a great party of German editors had returned our visit, and once again I had listened to speeches about the blood-brotherhood of the two nations, a little bored by the stale phrases, but glad to sit among these friendly Germans whom I had met in their own country. We clinked glasses again, sang God Save the King and the Wacht a...

Excerpt from The Romance of George Villiers First Duke of Buckingham, and Some Men and Women, of the Stuart CourtSuppose that among those who daily pass Villiers Street and Buckingham Street in the Strand, or stop to glance at the grey stone-work in the Embankment Gardens, which.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 impo...

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