The Greville Memoirs (Third Part), Vol. 1 of 2: A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria, from 1852 to 1860 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Greville, Charles C. F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330541774 ISBN 13: 9781330541777

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Greville Memoirs (Third Part), Vol. 1 of 2: A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria, From 1852 to 1860

Now published contain less of novelty and original information than the preceding portions of the work. But on the other hand, the events recorded in them are of a more momentous character - the re-establish ment of the French Empire, the Imperial Court, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, and the Italian War, are more interesting than the rise or fall of a Ministry; and it is curious to note precisely the effect produced at the time on the mind of a contem porary observer. No one was more conscious of the incompleteness of these Journals, and of a certain roughness, due to the impromptu character of a manu script hastily written down, and rarely corrected, than the author of them. He was more disposed to underrate their merit, as appears from his concluding remarks, than to exaggerate their importance. But the public have judged of them more favourably and if he enter tained a hope that he might contribute some pages to the record of his times and the literature of his country, that h0pe was not altogether vain.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330541774
• ISBN 13: 9781330541777
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 358