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The Entire Court Memoirs of France Series
AnonymousThe Memoirs, of which a new translation is now presented to the public, are the undoubted composition of the celebrated princess whose name they bear, the contemporary of our Queen Elizabeth; of equal..
Elizabeth Fry
Mrs. E.R. PitmanA hundred years ago, Norwich was a remarkable centre of religious, social and intellectual life. The presence of officers, quartered with their troops in the city, and the balls and festivities which ..
Emile Zola
William Dean HowellsIn these times of electrical movement, the sort of construction in the moral world for which ages were once needed, takes place almost simultaneously with the event to be adjusted in history, and as t..
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, vol 10
Thomas CarlyleOn the Crown-Prince's Marriage, three years ago, when the AMT or Government-District RUPPIN, with its incomings, was assigned to him for revenue, we heard withal of a residence getting ready. Hint had..
Emile Zola
Edmond LepelletierÉmile Zola was born in Paris. Should he be classified among the real Parisians, the natives, the Parisians who are from Paris, as the natives of Marseille are Marseilles? Yes and no. Ambiguous but exa..
Emily Brontë
Thomas J. MurreyThere are, perhaps, few tests of excellence so sure as the popular verdict on a work of art a hundred years after its accomplishment. So much time must be allowed for the swing and rebound of taste, f..
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. IV
Thomas MooreLife of Lord Byron, Vol. IV With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore."Your letters of the 18th and 20th are arrived. In my own I have given you the rise, progress, decline, and fall, of my r..
The Empress Josephine
Louisa Mühlbach“I win the battles, Josephine wins me the hearts.” These words of Napoleon are the most beautiful epitaph of the Empress Josephine, the much-loved, the much-regretted, and the much-slandered one. Even..