William Heinemann Ltd

Foreword by the Resident Governor of Her Majesty's Tower of London I first met Júlia Dobson when she visited the Tower to gather materialfor Children of the Tower. At the time I was struck with her knowledge and her scholarly approach to her subject. You may be sure that all her facts are...

One of the oldest and thinnest excuses for publishing a book is the suggestion that you are doing it at other people's request, pleasing them and not yourself. Nevertheless, it is a fact that I did not consider putting these polemical pieces into a book until a great many persons, belonging to...

Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. Biagio Buonaccorsi had had a busy day. He was tired, but, being a man of methodical habit, before going to bed made a note in his diary. It was brief: "The City sent a man to Imola to the Duke." Perhaps because he thought it of no importance he did not...

PREFACE THIS novel was written in 1900. It was thought extremely daring, and was refused by publisher after publisher, among others by William Heinemann; but it was at last read by Robertson Nicoll, a partner in the firm of Hodder and Stoughton, and he, though of opinion that it was not the sort...

Foreword to" The King of SchnorrersTHESE episodes make no claim to veracity, while the personages are not even sun-myths. I have merely antused myself and attempted to amuse idlers byJncai^Mng^Jhe fioating tradition of the Jewish Schnorrer, who is as uniqiie among beggars as Israel among nations....

FOREWORD I HAVE not evoked an imaginary Mozart j there is a real one. He exists for anyone to know, in his voluminous letters and in his still more voluminous works. After that it is necessary to have read the definitive biographies, and it is helpful to know the letters and memoirs of...

THE BIRD OF DAWNING Nearly seventy years ago, Cruiser Trewsbury, the second mate of the homeward-bound China clipper, Blackgauntlet, was keeping the first watch in a September evening in the extremest Northern verge of the North East Trades. His Christian name was Cyril, but he had been...