Bar, Stage and Platform Autobiographic Memories (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Merivale, Herman Charles

9781331109983: Bar, Stage and Platform Autobiographic Memories (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1331109981 ISBN 13: 9781331109983

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Islands, and the Premier - committing him self in those days to no special post of his own, but overlooking things generally under the comfortable style of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - figured in Lord John's post himself for the time. And so it was that the airy and famous Minister introduced himself one morning. Well, you hear that I've come to look after the Colonies myself now Russell's gone. In the first place, Mr. Merivale, where are the Colonies? Glad to see that you've plenty of maps about. Maps and to spare there certainly were, ornament ing in huge rollers the official walls, and serving in place of pictures When drawn down. Many an hour have I spent there in my boy-days looking on them with awe, but not with profit, being one of the many who never could, and never can, get any ideas of geography except by visiting the places for myself. The fact that Malaga, till I went to that incomparable capital of health and climate to stay, lies as far south as the southernmost point of Sicily, never assimi Iated itself to my mind. It seemed, rather, on a kind of vague level with the Riviera, at.

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"In the first place, Mr. Merivale, where are the Colonies?" How different it all seems now, with Australia "advancing" and Canada so near to us, and Imperial Institutes teaching the Anglo-Saxon legend. For it was the stout old British Premier, Lord Palmerston - most British of all the ministers of my time - who introduced himself to my father in those words in his room at the Colonial Office, where the last held the post of Permanent Secretary for many years from 1847 onwards.

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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 original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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