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Excerpt from Edmund Yates, Vol. 2 of 2: His Recollections and Experiences
Homeward voyage - Arrive - Ofl' to Paris - lleturn - Looking up arrears - Dr. Hosmer - My intended colleagues at Vienna - Great things to be done - Our rivals - Mr. Archibald Forbes in Vienna we are to clnun - Off at last - Our Viennese lodgings - A pleasant camaraderie - South Kensington representation Our mess at the taube-concordia dinner - Presented to the Prince of Wales - Opening of the Exhibition - Our cable mes sages: victory - A dinner in honour of our success - Full war paint - To buda-pesth - Another Prince learning his business Home - Oil again - I note the downfall of Thiers - In attendance on the Shah - Mark Twain and the British man-o'-war's man Still after the Shah - With him to Paris, Versailles, the old opera house, Auteuil, and the Trocadero - Back to Vienna - Glorious time - Tour through Germany: Gmunden, Ischl, Munich, Nurem berg - To Dublin - Old friends - To Galway - The Virginias difii culty - I go to Madrid: horrible journey; a kindly magnifico. 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.
