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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...

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Gibbs was one of five official reporters during the First World War, producing a number of books on the subject in addition to his journalism.

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I was born Just before the Second World War started. It wasn't my fault, and I do not remember much about it, except that at the end of the war, my father allowed me out of the shelter to observe a dog fight in the sky. I was born With a voice to sing. I have never, ever appreciated how wonderful a gift this was, until it was taken away from me by my Parkinsons. I now can't sing but I want to. I remember being in a church choir at 5, when my m...

Excerpt from Hypnotism and Spiritism: A Critical and Medical Study But there are very few who are in a position or who have time to grasp fully all the facts of the case. There are many people, even among the cultured, to whom hypnotism and spiritism are one and the same thing, or very nearly so, or who confuse the facts exclusively the property of the one with those that belong to the other, or who attribute to the one the nature and the cha...

In this book I have written about some aspects of the war which, I believe, the world must know and remember, not only as a memorial of men's courage in tragic years, but as a warning of what will happen again-surely-if a heritage of evil and of folly is not cut out of the hearts of peoples. Here it is the reality of modern warfare not only as it appears to British soldiers, of whom I can tell, but to soldiers on all the fronts where condition...

What man may lay bare the soul of England as it was stirred during those days of July when suddenly, without any previous warning, loud enough to reach the ears of the mass of people, there came the menace of a great, bloody war, threatening all that had seemed so safe and so certain in our daily life? England suffered in those summer days a shock which thrilled to its heart and brain with an enormous emotion such as a man who has been careles...

Excerpt from The Eighth Year: A Vital Problem of Married Life It 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...

Excerpt from The Pilgrim's Progress to Culture There are many young men nowadays who have a very sensible knowledge of their own ignorance. They have had a certain amount of schooling - the minimum required, and now their education is supposed to be complete, for they are wage-earners and business men, with no more need to learn. And yet what is the sum of their knowledge? Let us see. They can do a bit of arithmetic, sufficient anyway to carr...

Excerpt from Oliver's Kind Women Mr. Oliver Lumley was a young man of promise. He had good looks (in the mid-Victorian era he would have been called "Byronic"), good health, brains, a temperament, an ambition, and a spirit of adventure. If I were still a young man I should pray the good fairies to give me those qualities. With these natural gifts the world seems an easy thing to conquer. With such an outfit a young man of twentythree (Oliver...

Excerpt from More That Must Be Told Looking 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 the 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, poli...

Excerpt from The Way to Victory, Vol. 1 of 2 In my last book of collected dispatches - "From Bapaume to Passchendaele" - I dealt first with the German retreat after the Somme battles to the shelter of their Hindenburg line, then with the Arras battles which began with a striking victory and petered out into minor actions when our troops, with grim perseverance and no light losses, continued to hold German divisions so that the French might st...

Excerpt from The Germans on the Somme But 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 g...

Excerpt from The Way to Victory, Vol. 2 of 2 Looking back upon the last phase of the war, with more detachment of mind than was possible to me or to any man in the actual tumult of it, certain aspects of the military and moral situation of the armies in con¿ict, and of the Armistice which followed the German surrender, stand out in clearer detail through the dust and smoke and slaughter on the battlefields. About the Publisher Forgotten Boo...

Excerpt from King's Favourite, the Love Story of Robert Carr and Lady Essex His is the first book giving the full life of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset. I find that curious, 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 The Romance of George Villiers First Duke of Buckingham, and Some Men and Women, of the Stuart Court Suppose 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of...

Excerpt from Now It Can Be Told IN this book I have written about some aspects Of the war which, I believe, the world must know and remember, not only as a memorial Of men's courage in tragic years, but as a warning Of what will happen again - surely - if a heritage Of evil and Of folly is not cut out Of the hearts Of peoples. Here it is the reality of modern warfare not only as it appears to British soldiers, Of whom I can tell, but to soldi...

Excerpt from The Balkan War: Adventures of War With Cross and Crescent A 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds o...