Excerpt from A Romance of the Nineteenth Century I find, however, that the reviewers in this country have fixed in especial on three scenes or passages, which have been criticised in the following way. About the Publisher 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.

Excerpt from A Romance of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1 of 2 Make it worth the world's while to attend to him; and the result was that he was at once condemned and courted. This was not perhaps a matter that it is very hard to account for. His manners and his amusements led him to consort with the careless, whilst his deeper interests were really those of the serious; and thus, let him be in what Society he would, he was. About the Publisher 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.

Excerpt from A Romance of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2 of 2 'Now, ' said Vernon to Mrs. Crane, 'we will come in and have some tea together; and you must give your own orders as to when you will have the carriage, ' Mrs. Crane was a woman who, as had once been said of her, could kiss with her eyes almost as unequivocally as with her lips. Several times during the afternoon she had already done this with the former; and they had not many moments been left alone with the tea-things before she repeated the operation with the latter. About the Publisher 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.

Excerpt from Goslington Shadow, Vol. 2 of 2: A Romance of the Nineteenth Century The falling in of the roof of the house on a stormy night, when the Whult and the wife were in bed, afforded the Laird many a hearty laugh as he told the story; and although he had told it a hundred times, and to a hundred people, he once more told it to Jonathan and Peggy, on their way to the Whult's. About the Publisher 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.

Excerpt from Goslington Shadow, Vol. 1 of 2: A Romance of the Nineteenth Century Yet still they knew, and ought still t' have remembered The high injunction, not to taste that fruit, Whoever tempted. About the Publisher 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.

Excerpt from The Romance of a Hundred Years: Remarkable Chapters in the Social and Public Life of the Nineteenth Century T was the lot of our grandfathers to pass away just I when great issues were pending, and of our fathers to be born in one' world and to die in another, so great has been the contrast between the opening and the close of a single lifetime. We who with grateful hearts have closed the eyes of the nineteenth century, may console ourselves with the thought that whatever the new century may have in store, the application of steam and electricity has for ever taken away much of the elements of surprise and sharp contrast in which the past hundred years have been so fruitful to our fathers. In the following pages I have aimed, not so much at a study of nineteenth-century life and progress, as to give a setting to some of the more striking elements of contrast which have been brought into such bold relief. The Peasants' Rising after Waterloo has, however, a character of its own, and, as one of the most curious little tragi comedies in all our history, may perhaps deserve the prominence given to it. Where not otherwise indicated, the authorities used have been county and parochial docu ments, broadsides, etc., in the British Museum Library, contemporary newspapers, and old men's memories. With such materials no claim can be made to originality; it is enough if some small service has been rendered in pre serving old landmarks, and those starting-points of later developments the character of which should go far towards justifying the title I have given to this book. About the Publisher 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.