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Excerpt from WessexBy some strange chance the term Wessex, as denot ing that portion of southern and south-western England which in Saxon times formed the kingdom of the West Saxons, almost disappeared from the language and lost significance, becoming a mere historical term. It was left to the genius of a Wessex-born novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy, to revive the name in 1874, and by such reincarnation to arouse a keen and ever, though slowly,...

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Excerpt from From the North Foreland to PenzanceThat the coastline covered by the present volume has much of interest few will deny. It is, indeed, the one which has played the most strenuous and historic part in the history of our Island Kingdom.In times of war it has experienced all the terror and excitement which comes in the train of outgo ing battle fleets and incoming Victorious galleons, men - of-war, and privateers. In times of peace i...

Excerpt from Things Seen in JapanIn one of the most vivid books descriptive of the war was a beautiful story which illustrates the ineradicable love of ¿owers which distinguishes the Japanese race.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 digitall...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Excerpt from Old and New JapanUnder the circumstances there is only one course to pursue, namely, to accept this earlier history of the race as tradition pure and simple, but tradition which has doubtless a considerable basis of truth.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 s...

Excerpt from Things Seen in EgyptIn an Egyptian Home - The Harim and its Occupants The Place of the Harim in Domestic Life Marriages and Marriage Cus toms - The Matrimonial Agent - Marriage Festivities - The Bridal Procession - Death and some Strange Beliefs - The Birthday of the Prophet - The Fast of Ramadan - The Feast of Bairam - Dancing Dervishes - The Sacred Carpet.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare...

Excerpt from The Belgians at HomeThere are already many volumes which cover separately and fully all these aspects of the country and its possessions.The present volume deals with Belgium and its people from the point Of view of a rambler who has at various times cycled and travelled many hundreds of miles along its high ways and by-ways, and has sought to learn something of its past history, greatness, and romance, and to see many of its grea...

Excerpt from Marcelle of the QuarterThe place was crowded, as it usually was at this time when the mid-day rest at the various ateliers and Académies freed for a time a whole host of art students, whose numbers were additionally reinforced by scores of others from the Sorbonne.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 import...

Excerpt from Brown Face and White: A Story of JapanA man's voice, deep and sonorous, called in the exquisite twilight of a Japanese summer evening. And the faint echo which came back from the rocky hill-side bounding the Mission House garden on its eastern side answered, Eileen! Eileen! Over the hill-crest, on the steep sides of which, here and there, beeches, larches, pines, camphor trees, and maples grew, the last rays of the setting sun had...

Excerpt from A Japanese Romance: Illustrated in Colours by Arthur G. DoveThe officers not on duty, or below snatching a little belated sleep, were chatting with the passengers, their preference being Obviously for the ladies.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-th...

Excerpt from A Writer of FictionJohn march cardew had married light heartedly enough at six-and-twenty and now, sixteen years afterwards, he lay awake in a lodging-house tortured by the re¿ection that it had all been a terrible mistake - for the woman he had married.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 histori...