Notes Form a Diary, 1892-1895, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Duff, Grant

9781332514366: Notes Form a Diary, 1892-1895, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1332514367 ISBN 13: 9781332514366

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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This book is a collection of diary entries penned by the author from 1892 to 1901. Spanning nine eventful years, they offer an intimate glimpse into the Victorian upper echelons and their political, social, and literary worlds. The author was a Liberal politician, whose circle included Gladstone, Matthew Arnold, and Alfred Tennyson, and his observations provide a unique insider's perspective on late 19th-century British history. From the tumult of the Irish Home Rule crisis to the growing influence of socialism, from the career of Cardinal Manning to the ascent of Theodore Roosevelt, this book paints a vivid portrait of an era poised between tradition and change.

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Excerpt from Notes Form a Diary, 1892-1895, Vol. 1 of 2

Dined with the Literary Society. Sir Douglas Galton, just returned from Florence, whither he had gone to advise about sanitation, said the state of things was not very bad; the drainage was better than that of most Italian, but below that of the better sort of French cities.

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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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Excerpt from Notes Form a Diary, 1892-1895, Vol. 1 of 2

The two volumes, which I now publish, cover a period of four years, from the beginning of 1892 onwards. Seventy-five is not first youth, even in these days of comparative longevity; but I cherish the hope that I may be able, by the publication of two more volumes, to conclude these Notes with the 23rd January 1901, on which the Privy Council took the oaths to our present King. As they began with New Year's Day in 1851, they will then have extended over half a century.

All my earlier books, Studies in European Politics, A Political Survey, Elgin Speeches, etc. - everything indeed which I printed, while I remained in political life, was, whatever else it may have been, as grave as the least frivolous could desire.

In the two volumes to which this forms a preface, I have, as in all their predecessors of the same series, resolutely kept to the less serious side of life, and I purpose doing the same to the end.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

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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