Rodney Stone

Rodney Stone

Amongst the books to which I am indebted for my material in my endeavour to draw various phases of life and character in England at the beginning of the century, I would particularly mention Ashtons Dawn of the Nineteenth Century; Gronows Reminiscences; Fitzgeralds Life and Times of George IV.; Jesses Life of Brummell; Boxiana; Pugilistica; Harpers Brighton Road; Robinsons Last Earl of Barrymore and Old Q.; Rices History of the Turf; Tristrams Coaching Days; Jamess Naval History; Clark Russells Collingwood and Nelson. I am also much indebted to my friends Mr. J. C. Parkinson and Robert Barr for information upon the subject of the ring. A. CONAN DOYLE. Haslemere, September 1, 1896. On this, the first of January of the year 1851, the nineteenth century has reached its midway term, and many of us who shared its youth have already warnings which tell us that it has outworn us. We put our grizzled heads together, we older ones, and we talk of the great days that we have known; but we find that when it is with our children that we talk it is a hard matter to make them understand. We and our fathers before us lived much the same life, but they with their railway trains and their steamboats belong to a different age. It is true that we can put history-books into their hands, and they can read from them of our weary struggle of two and twenty years with that great and evil man. They can learn how Freedom fled from the whole broad continent, and how Nelsons blood was shed, and Pitts noble heart was broken in striving that she should not pass us for ever to take refuge with our brothers across the Atlantic. All this they can read, with the date of this treaty or that battle, but I do not know where they are to read of ourselves, of the folk we were, and the lives we led, and how the world seemed to our eyes when they were young as theirs are now. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 5148
Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
Release Date: Feb 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English