Excerpt from The Sultan and His People 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 Sultan and His Subjects, Vol. 1 of 2 Tue following chapters embody the results of an earnest attempt to set forth the chief characteristics of those heterogeneous nationalities which have, in process of time and by virtue of conquest, fallen under the dominion of the Sultans. The work deals with the Turkish people generally, but chiefly with the Turks of Constantinople. 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.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Excerpt from The Sultan and His Subjects, Vol. 2 of 2 But the atmosphere of Constantinople is so diaphanous, and its sunshine so brilliant, that sur prising effects are constantly produced, changing even the ugly outer shell of Sancta Sophia into a thing of beauty. From the Sea of Marmara its appearance is superb, incorporated as it seems to be with the otherwise commonplace modern Palace of Justice a long white stucco building in classical style, which, from this point, appears to form a pedestal to support the dome, and its double pair of snowy minarets. 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.

Intended to "familiarize the English-speaking people with the annals of the beautiful Orient and with the various phases of the rapidly impending crisis in Turkey," the book is a history of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, primarily a political history mostly concerned with wars, treaties, and invasions.

Mutability is the appropriate motto of humanity; for what are men but creatures of a day; monarchs, but transient shadows of earthly greatness; empires, but passing events? Time, with more than eagle swiftness, hurls all things into the great bosom of Eternity. Futurity is dark and impenetrable, but the present is with us, and still more the past, teeming with vast records of human life, of rising and falling empires, bloody tales of extinguished armies and extirpated races of mankind, detailing the effects of the wild ambition of kings, emperors, sultans, themselves but atoms, yet involving the whole mass in their career. Contrast is often the greatest source of pleasure to the mind; therefore do the citizens of this New World delight to revel in the scenes of the olden hemisphere, which was in full glory when this vast continent lay in undiscovered obscurity. Orientalism! Talisman to conjure up the shades of the very parents of our race, and of the old patriarchs of Israel, to array in picturesque and savage beauty the vision of Arabian horsemen, flying steeds, vast encampments on arid plains, tribes of wandering Tartars, and almost to awaken the echoes of the clashing and blood-stained scimitars of the desperate champions of the Crescent, the followers of the Prophet. And while there is a wall of iron between us and our future, the eventful record of by-gone times displays to us the development of all that was hidden to our ancestors. There is a great difference between the primitive condition of the human race and the effects which Time has produced upon that wonderful structure, MAN! Simplicity, almost childlike, seems to characterize the living mind of man in its embryo state, while years of successive re-conceptions have continued to develop this noble emanation from the great spirit of the universe. But how deeply interesting to us, who are the embodiment of the more mature and experienced human wisdom, to look into the vast womb of the Past, and trace the growth of the great human fœtus. The impress of the original condition of our race is yet upon the nations of the East, and wonderfully do they still retain the habits and ideas of the earliest ages.

Excerpt from The Sultan and the Powers The first half of this volume consists of signed articles, revised and enlarged, which I contri buted to the Daily Chronicle in the end Of September and the first half of October. I received numerous letters from all parts Of the country, as did also the Editor Of the Daily Chronicle, urging that they Should be republished. On re-reading them for that purpose, I saw that a good deal more was needed to elucidate the. Subject, and the result is the present volume. I have tried to be fair all round, and have striven to Obey the precept Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.' It would have been more agreeable to me to praise instead Of blaming men Whom I admire, and from Whom I have received undeserved kindnesses; and I can only plead - Si parcel licet componere magnis Aristotle's excuse for criticising his great master's doctrine Of Ideas. Where the interests of truth are actually at stake it is a duty to sacrifice in its defence the most valuable private possession, including precious friendships. Both are alike dear to us; but it is a religious duty to prefer truth.' 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.