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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 ...

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 Frank Forester's Fugitive Sporting Sketches: Being the Miscellaneous Upon Sport and Sporting, Originally Published in the Early American Magazines and PeriodicalsY object in presenting a work of this kind to the sporting public, at this time, is quite fully defined in the introduc tory chapter, and to this I have but little to add. The utility and interest of a volume of this kind will, I trust, be apparent to the most casual obse...

Excerpt from The Silent Rifleman: A Tale of the Texan PrairiesThis duty done, he returned to the shore, and, selecting an oak tree about two feet in girth, around which the grass grew unusually tall and luxuriant, tied his companion to its stem by the lasso, or cord of plaited hide which was coiled at his saddle-bow.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com...

Excerpt from Oliver Cromwell, Vol. 2 of 3: An Historical RomanceThe Queen, who had escaped to Holland, stealing and bearing with her the crown-jewels which were pawned at once to furnish arms, and men and money, was setting every spring in motion on the continent - Rupert and Mau.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 imp...

Excerpt from The Chevaliers of France: From the Crusaders to the Marechals of Louis XIVIT wanted an hour or two perhaps of sunset, on a lowering September evening, when a small group of men and horses were assembled on an elevated knoll, commanding an exten sive view of the country, which at that period was mostly cov ered by unbroken forest although a large and seemingly much travelled road could be seen at intervals, for a distance of many m...

Excerpt from The Cavaliers of England: Or the Times of the Revolutions of 1642 and 1688I have no more to say in explanation, either of my work, or of my motives in producing it, but only to submit it to the can dor and kindness of my readers, be they few or many.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 ...

Excerpt from Persons and Pictures From the Histories of France and England: From the Norman Conquest to the Fall of the StuartsThe persons introduced, are invariably true Historic personages, delineated with a pen as candid and as free from prejudice as the author knows how to wield.The Pictures and Scenes, if in some instances fictitious, are drawn, it is believed, with perfect fidelity to the costume of the day, the spirit of the times, and ...

Excerpt from American Game: In Its SeasonsThe leading idea of the plan was to adopt for each month in the year the finest, and most generally, favor ite species of game, with reference principally, as regards season, to the Northern, Midland, and Northwestern portions of the United States and Canada, though the animals described are common more or less to all sections of the country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thou...

Excerpt from Oliver Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 3: An Historical RomanceIn the realization of his patriotic boast that he would cause the name of a Briton to be as much respected throughout the world as ever was that of an antique Roman - in raising England from the prostration and contempt in which he found her, and into which she so quickly relapsed after his death, to a condition of greater power and dignity than she had ever attained under the mos...

Excerpt from Dermot O'brien, or the Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649But now another sound arose, faint and far, swelling up from the westward, on the wings of the gentle wind a strange, con fused, yet harmonious murmur. For a long time it continued rising and falling with the rise and fall of the breeze, scarcely distinguishable above the tinkling music of the river, and the fitful cadences of the air among the tree-tops, unless it were by so...

Excerpt from Supplement to Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States British Provinces of North AmericaI have therefore judged it best to throw what new information I have gained, into the form of a Supplement, embodying therein the correction of all erroneous Opinions which, through want of informa tion, or misinformation, I have fallen into, and adding farther instruo tions with regard to the implements, and the art of angling.A...

Excerpt from Marmaduke Wyvil or the Maid's Revenge: A Historical RomanceIn s sequestered vale of England, not many miles from the county town of Worcester, there stands, in excellent preservation, even to the present day, one of those many mansions scattered through the land, which - formerly the manor houses of a race, now, like their dwellings, becoming rapidly extinct, the good old English squires - have, for the most part, been converted i...

Excerpt from Legislation Gone Astray, or a Review of the Banking Controversy, and Thoughts Upon the Inexpediency of Putting Down the One-Pound-Note Circulation: To Which Is Added a Plan for the Prevention of Forgery of Bank of England NotesThe public have been pretty well saturated with pamphlets relating to Banking and Currency Questions. The Bullion Report first led the way, as a light shining in darkness, afterwards, every gentleman who cou...

Excerpt from The DogIN offering to the American public a new edition of dinks and mayhew on the Dog, which, I am happy to find, is largely called for, I have been induced to make a further addition, which will, I think, render this the most perfect and comprehensive work in existence for the dog fancier and dog lover.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.co...

Excerpt from Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2: An Historical NovelAnd if she be inquired the interested Wal ter, seeing that his guest hesitated to complete his sentence, and if she be sore changed?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 reconstr...