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Excerpt from Facts and Ideas: Short Studies of Life and Literature Success 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare...

Excerpt from People of Destiny: Americans as I Saw Them, at Home and Abroad I had the luck to go to New York for the first 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 spiri...

Excerpt from Beauty and Nick: A Novel of the Stage and the Home the Artistic Temperament in Fateful Action Nicholas 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...

Excerpt from The Street of Adventure This 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 o...

Excerpt from Wounded Souls They stole all our copper, monsieur. The very mattresses Off our beds. The wine out of our cellars. They did abominations. 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 or...

Excerpt from The Battles of the Somme IN 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 ...

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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...