Excerpt from Walpole Shorter, a grand-daughter Of Sir John Shorter, once Lord Mayor of London. The lady brought him beauty. 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.

Walpole (Classic Reprint)

History

John, Morley

Europe

Forgotten Books

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, 1872-1898, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from English Men of Letters The present writer published a study on Burke some twelve years ago. It was almost entirely critical, and in no sense a narrative. The volume now submitted to the readers of this Series is biographical rathtr than critical, and not more than about a score Of pages have been re produced in it from the earlier book. Three pages (pp. 511 - 213) have been inserted from an article on Burke contributed by me to the new edition of the Encyclopoedia Britannica; and I have to thank Messrs. Black for the great courtesy with which they have allowed me to tran scribe the passage here. These borrowings from my for mer self, the reader will perhaps be willing to excuse, on the Old Greek principle, that a man may once say a thing as he would have it said, 529 52 of: v8e'xerar - he cannot. 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.

English Men of Letters (Classic Reprint)

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

A history of furniture. John Morely documents the aesthetics of furniture, its social and cultural context, the sequence of styles - from Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman through Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and onwards - and the individual touches of craftsmen or designers used to give it character. The story is shaped by the conflict between "Classical" and "anti-Classical", order and fantasy, and includes exotic styles from China and Japan, India and Africa. Furniture finds a huge variety of forms, depending on comfort and convenience but also changing fashions in interiors, as well as the influence of politics, religion, architecture and the fine arts. Works by famous designers - Boulle, Chippendale, Riesener, Mackintosh, Eames - appear in the context of the stylistic ideals of their times, and more than 600 illustrations are closely integrated to the text.

Furniture : The Western Tradition - History, Style, Design

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

THAMES HUDSON LTD

The Royal Pavilion is one of the most famous and opulent royal extravaganzas in existence. First built in 1787 for the Prince of Wales as a neo-classical marine villa, by the time the Prince became king in 1820, it had grown into the extraordinary Indian-Chinese fantasy that it is today. This book reproduces all the important surviving designs, from the exterior and interior of the Pavilion.

Philip Wilson Catalogue

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

Science and Literature

BiblioLife

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

English Men of Letters, Vol. 1: Milton, by Mark Pattison; Gibbon, by J. C. Morison; Shelley, by J. A. Symonds (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. 37: November 1877, to April 1878 This is how he entered the Consti tntz'o'nnel. They wanted an art critic Thiers was asked if he thought him self equal to a review of the Salon - a task proposed by an editor anxious at once to honour Manuel's recom mendation, and to rid himself of his protégé, whose aesthetic education he was far from suspecting. Thiers's first notice was a literary event. Dela croix, then an unknown artist, had exhibited his Dante and Virgil in Hell. Thiers wrote: That of all the pictures in the Salon, this was the one that most revealed a coming master. One saw in it a powerful conception and the free &#64258;ow of talent. It presented with epic force to the critic's eye the selfishness and despair of hell. In the treatment of a sub ject which lay on the confines of the f antastic, severity of taste was ob servable. The drawing, which hasty j udges might think deficient in dignity. 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.

Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. 37: November 1877, to April 1878 (Classic Reprint)

With fifty trillion in worldwide assets, the growth of mutual funds is a truly global phenomenon and deserves a broad international analysis. Local political economies and legal regimes create different regulatory preferences for the oversight of these funds, and academics, public officials and legal practitioners wishing to understand the global investing environment will require a keen awareness of these international differences. 
The contributors, leading scholars in the field of investment law from around the world, provide a current legal analysis of funds from a variety of perspectives and using an array of methodologies that consider the large fundamental questions governing the role and regulation of investment funds. This volume also explores the identity and behavior of investors as well as issues surrounding less orthodox funds, such as money market funds, ETFs, and private funds.
This Handbook will provide legal and financial scholars, academics, lawyers and regulators with a vital tool for working with mutual funds.
Contributors include: W.A. Birdthistle, M. Bullard, I.H-Y Chiu, B. Clarke, Q. Curtis, D.A. DeMott, J. Fanto, J.E. Fisch, P. Hanrahan, L.P.Q. Johnson, W.A. Kaal, A.K. Krug, A.B. Laby, J.D. Morley, A. Palmiter, I. Ramsay, E.D. Roiter, M. White, D.A. Zetzsche

Research Handbook on the Regulation of Mutual Funds (Research Handbooks in Corporate Law and Governance series)

Business & Money

William A. Birdthistle

Investing

Edward Elgar Publishing

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