The Critic Volume 35.cU S Government
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Author: U S Government
Number of Pages: 262 pages
Published Date: 15 Jan 2013
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d4rri9bdfuube.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/1305/9781130522211.jpg
ISBN: 9781234213435
File size: 38 Mb
Download Link: The Critic Volume 35
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...but not feeling that he had a call" in that direction, he decided for business, and at the age of seventeen left Devon for London, where he entered an insurance office, studying for the stage in his moments of leisure. He soon found that he had no greater " call " for the stage than he had for the Church, so he took up literature, and after ten years in business he has given himself up entirely to the writing of books. If all that he writes is accorded the reception given to The Children of the Mist," he will do well to continue in literature. A rumor that Pierre Loti had offered his services to the Queen of Spain was very generally credited at the beginning of the late war. Loti himself denies any such intention on his part, and in his recent book, Reflets sur la Sombre Route, says: I went by Behobie, instead of going direct to Irun, because a story had got about that I was going to Madrid to ask for the command of a. privateer. Yesterday, some honest fellows who had sailed with me formerly came and asked to be part of my crew, and in the evening some young Spaniards waited for me at the Irun station to thank me for offering my life for their country. So, to avoid the thanks which are not my due, I came through the fields.... This offer was all a legend as far as I am concerned, and, I much fear, a senseless dream for those who would try it; in these days of electricity and swiftness one would have to equip an impossible privateer which would go twenty knots at least. Without that it would be useless to interfere." The Queen-Regent received Loti and thanked him for coming. These thanks " says Loti " embarrassed and pained me, as had the welcome I received at...
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