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INTRODUCTION When the Trustees of the National Gallery gave permission for the publication of the large Illustrated Catalogue under their sanction, it was on condition that a cheap edition should follow, which in the style of its production should endeavour to excel those already before the...

Dear Anne and Hope and Ellen,- The Farm is written for you, who were all born long after the War came to an end, in order that you may know a little what it was like to have lived before 1914. Something came to an end about that year and I fancy it was the Nineteenth Century. You will never know...

FOREWORD The title of this book naturally suggests that it deals with Horse Racing, but it does not convey the fact that the author has struck out for himself a new line of Turf literature. It is the first effort, and a very charming one, to give us an authentic and carefully verified account of...

XNTKODUCTION Thomas Babiííguw Macaulay was borii at Rotliley Temple, in Leicestershire, on tlie 25th of October, 1800. His grandfatlier, the ítev. John Maca.ulay, minister of Cardross, had twelve children. One of them, Zachary, began life as overseer of an estate in Jamaica, saw the ills of...

INTRODUCTION Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S speeches from November 12, 1940, to December 30, 1941, have been collected together in this book. They form a history of the war during some of its most momentous phases, and carry the story of the unrelenting struggle from the death of Neville Chamberlain,...

FOREWORD The learned Counsel looked at me over his glasses and said pompously : " The girl was a ward in Chancery, so naturally I asked Mr. Provis-the surgeon who had been called in-to explain to my satisfaction how he had arrived at his diagnosis and exactly what he proposed doing." I looked at my...

INTRODUCTION When the Trustees of the National Gallery gave permission for the publication of the large Illustrated Catalogue under their sanction, it was on condition that a cheap edition should follow, which in the style of its production should endeavour to excel those already before the...