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Excerpt from The English Review: December, 1916 Among the old-world celebrities drawn from life in this work are the Duke of Wellington, Lord Raglan, Lord Roberts, Lord Kitchener, Lord Odo Russell. Mrs. Oliphant, Whyte Melville, Henry Irving, Arthur Sullivan, W. 5. Gilbert, and Edmund Yates. 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.