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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Excerpt from For Better? For Worse? Notes on Social ChangesI have been invited to make some comments on recent changes in society, and I obey the call, though not Without misgiving. Society in its modern ex tension is so Wide a subject that probably no one can survey more than a limited.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of...

Excerpt from An Onlookers¿ Note-Book The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.14 collections and recollections. It was his constant endeavour to keep that eye clear and bright. He never willingly suffered its vision to be obscured either by the glamour of an idealized past, or by the inevitable mistiness of the unknown future. And yet there were certain pheno...

Excerpt from Sketches and Snapshots "Mamma, are Tories born wicked, or do they grow wicked afterwards?" "My dear, they are born wicked, and grow worse." Ex oribus parvulorum. - This was the Shorter Catechism of Whiggery, and by none was it more devoutly believed than by the Ministers who kissed Queen Victoria's hand on that fateful June 20, 1837. I propose to myself in this chapter a two-fold object. I wish to trace, in the light of Queen Vi...

Excerpt from The Woodhouse Correspondence My home circle stifles me, my Spirit demands solitude, and, if I am to develop myself, I must have it. It is on this point that I need your advice. I can turn to no one else. You are my father's oldest friend and, besides that, you have long known all the Thompsons, though, with the exception of myself, there is really very little to know. I cannot help realising this, for I am the only Thompson who h...

Excerpt from Politics and Personalities: With Other Essays I was lately addressing an audience of working men on the ethical aspects of war. After the address there was a discussion, and the question which excited the keenest debate was: "What are we to do with the Kaiser when the war is over?" In vain I reminded my friends of the adage about catching your hare before you cook him. Some - a few - were for St. Helena, the great majority were f...

Excerpt from Portraits of the Seventies Justin mccarthy was born at Cork in 1830, and we, who knew him in his placid and gentle man-like maturity, always delighted in the recollection that he had begun life as a rebel. At eighteen, he was one of the men of '48, and was only precluded by his tender years from attaining immortality in Thackeray's ballad of the Battle of Limerick. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thous...

Excerpt from Selected Essays on Literary Subjects I have heard, on what seems credible authority, that an eminent scholar, who, at the present moment, occupies the Chair of English Literature at one of our Universities, began a lecture on the same subject as that on which I have the honour of addressing you to-night with these memorable words: "Strictly speaking, Charles Dickens had no humour." cannot promise you any observations of so startl...

Excerpt from Afterthoughts Louisa, Lady De Rothschild, died on Thursday, the 22nd of September 1910, at Aston Clinton, near Tring. She was in her ninetieth year, and had been in good health until 10 th June, when she had a fall going downstairs. Since then she had been unable to walk, but on 3 rd August she was taken to her country house, and had been able to go out in her bath-chair and even in her carriage. But quite recently her general he...

Excerpt from Some Threepenny BitsPrincess Lieven had a long and a remarkable career, and not all its incidents were so wholly blameless as the introduction of the Christmas Tree.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 reconstruct the w...

Excerpt from The Household of Faith: Portraits and Essays His book owes its existence to Dr. Robertson Nicol], who suggested that I should collect and reprint some papers, more or less closely connected with Religion, which I had published during the last few years. My sincere thanks are due to the various Editors, whose kindness has enabled me to act on the suggestion. The paper on Cardinal Manning is ex tracted, by permission of Messrs. Sm...

Excerpt from One Look BackSir - AS Links with the Past seem just now to be in fashion, permit me to supply two which concern my near relations.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 reconstruct the work, preserving the original format...

Excerpt from The Spirit of EnglandA few years ago we believed the world had become too civilized for war, and the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park was to be the inauguration of a new era. Battles, bloody as Napoleon's, are now the familiar tale of every day and the arts which have made greatest progress are the arts of destruction. A. Froude.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at w...