Portraits of the Nineties: (Illustrated Edition). E-book. Formato PDF E. T. Raymond   -  Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019  - 

Biography of famous people of 90's like Cecil Rhodes, Mr. Gladstone, George Meredith, The Duke Of Devonshire, Oscar Wilde, Some Lawyers, Old And New Journalists, Some Actors Etc.  

Tell England a Study: In a Generation. E-book. Formato PDF Ernest Raymond   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In the year that the Colonel died he took little Rupert to see the swallows fly away. I can find no better beginning than that.When there devolved upon me as a labour of love the editing of Rupert Ray's book, "Tell England," I carried the manuscript into my room one bright autumn afternoon, and read it during the fall of a soft evening, till the light failed, and my eyes burned with the strain of reading in the dark. I could hardly leave his ingenuous tale to rise and turn on the gas. Nor, perhaps, did I want such artificial brightness. There are times when one prefers the twilight. Doubtless the tale held me fascinated because it revealed the schooldays of those boys whom I met in their young manhood, and told afresh that wild old Gallipoli adventure which I shared with them. Though, sadly enough, I take Heaven to witness that I was not the idealised creature whom Rupert portrays. God bless them, how these boys will idealise us!Then again, as Rupert tells you, it was I who suggested to him the writing of his story. And well I recall how he demurred, asking:"But what am I to write about?" For he was always diffident and unconscious of his power."Is Gallipoli nothing to write about?" I retorted. "And you can't have spent five years at a great public school like Kensingtowe without one or two sensational things. Pick them out and let us have them. For whatever the modern theorists say, the main duty of a story-teller is certainly to tell stories."

Uncensored Celebrities. E-book. Formato PDF E. T. Raymond   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In the political world, as in all others, the war has created new standards, and the following sketches, slight though they be, are designed to assist the process of revaluation.They are not meant for the hero-worshipper. The Hero as Politician, always rare, is not discoverable just now by the present writer. "The Man" of the newspaper articles has still to appear, though he has been regularly announced every three months or so. For the most part one can only say of political things that they have got themselves transacted somehow. But while, like the angry ape, certain politicians have played "fantastic tricks before high heaven," others have emerged with credit from the supreme test, and still others have meant exceedingly well.In his task of classification the author has paid scant attention to party labels, and has always preferred the wider to the narrower loyalty. The most important question to be asked of any public man at this time, "Is he a good Englishman?" cannot be resolved by purely intellectual tests. Judge Jeffreys used to say that he could "smell" a certain kind of person "a mile off."