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Excerpt from Days With Industrials: Adventures and Experiences Among Curious Industries Some of these chapters, in a condensed form, have appeared in All the Year Round, Good Words, Gentleman's Magazine, and other periodicals. Favour able opinions were expressed of them in various news papers and reviews, and the author trusts that his friendly critics may have no reason to change their Opinion of them now that they are brought together. All ...

Excerpt from Successful Business-Men: Short Accounts of the Rise of Famous Firms The aim of this work is to present in a short succinct form the story of the rise of some of the more famous firms with the names of which the public is familiar. The writers have not limited themselves to dry facts and figures, but have been desirous to give as much life and movement and reality as they could to the sketches by anecdote, incident, or the record ...

Excerpt from Some Heresies Dealt Dear Sir, On July 4th, 1896, you wrote to me, after having glanced at the second of the essays in this volume, as follows: "If, when the article has been revised and type-writ ten, you send it to Mr. Percy W. Bunting, of 'The Contemporary Review, ' you may say that I think it is worthy of his attention." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find mor...

Excerpt from Three Great Teachers of Our Own Time: Being an Attempt to Deduce the Spirit and Purpose Animating Carlyle, Tennyson and Ruskin These essays were composed mostly in the intervals of arduous professional duty. The writer states this not with any idea of forestalling criticism, but rather that his readers may know that the task has been taken up con amore. The nature of the views advanced, and the persistent attempts made to find ou...

Excerpt from The Circle of the Year: A Sonnet-Sequence With Proem and Envoi To Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate. Oh, if a little leaf I might but lay Before thy feet, and it kept greenness still, And for a moment in thy wreath might play, Ah, that were joy like triumph over ill, For, in the shadow, it is sweet to learn Some gleam of light received we may return. June 4, 1892. SO wrote I, whilst thy honoured head was still Erect, fu...

Excerpt from Our Common Cuckoo: And Other Cuckoos and Parasitical Birds, An Attempt to Reach a True Theory of Them by Comparative Study of Habit and Function, With a Thorough Criticism and Exposure of Darwin's Views and Romanes's Views and Those of Their Folowers All the district round a little house in the country, to which I removed from London, now getting on to twenty years ago, abounds with cuckoos, as well as with nightingales. I was th...

Excerpt from The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2: Edited From the Author's Mss, With Introductions and Notes All that is needful for me to say by way of Preface is that, as in the case of the first volume, I have received much aid from Mrs. Baird Smith and Miss De Quincey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduct...

Excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a MemorialAnother point on which I might have dwelt and illustrated by many instances is this, that though Stevenson was fond of hob-nobbing with all sorts and conditions of men, this desire of wide contact and intercourse has little show in his novels - the ordinary fibre of commonplace human beings not receiving much celebration from him there, another case in which his private ...

Excerpt from De Quincey Memorials, Vol. 2 of 2: Being Letters and Other Records, Here First Published, With Communications From Coleridge, the Wordsworths, Hannah More, Professor Wilson, and Others "Mary has been reproaching me the whole week for not writing to you, which is a great shame, because your last letter was to her, and, besides, you owe me some three or four already. After all, I don't know what it is she is so desirous I should im...

Excerpt from Offering and Sacrifice: An Essay in Comparative Customs and Religious Development, From the Hebrew as a Starting-Point to the Ritualisers or Catholics in the Church of England And the distinct idea that underlay it the unbloody sacrifice and that went before it, was a bloody sacrifice, it could have had no meaning whatever otherwise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. ...

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1905 Biography of Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (1850-1894), the Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature.

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