Excerpt from Thirty Years, Anglo-French Reminiscences (1876-1906) Occasionally the reader will meet with digressions he may resent when getting interested in some subject. He must think himself in a club smoking room with a talkative member, getting on in years, who must tell you a thing by the by, and remember that he is only reading reminiscences. 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.