People I Have Read (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Portrait of the author;

For the first time in my life I had a king for an interpreter;

"I haven't finished my smoke, and I really cannot concentrate my thoughts without it";

He whispered that it was the button on his coat that was the object of his thought;

In an experiment with Lord Kitchener he thought of a man whom he wished to be killed in a certain way. I at once found out the victim and proceeded to throttle him, which was the death Lord Kitchener had chosen;

I once experimented with General Kuropatkin, who thought of the scar of an old wound, which I at once located;

Like an arrow from a bow, straight went his thoughts in the direction of the pin, and his body with them;

I succeeded in one rather difficult test - which consisted in solving whilst blindfolded a difficult problem - with the late Herr Steinitz, one of the greatest of modern chess-players;

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