Excerpt from From the Other Side: Stories of Transatlantic TravelAll accounts agree; all strike the same note: it is always and ever my eye for character. The unified voice of appreciation never falls below pene tration, and often enough it rises even to divination. Stanhope, in his art, tries for the same things, but he wastes a great many words, for his medium is wholly wrong. Sometimes I probe a complicated nature to its depths; some times I throw a flood of light upon the And so forth, and so forth.Very well; let them keep it up; let them employ their art to glorify mine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.