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After Waterloo
W. E Frye
其他書名
Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016-04-04
主題Fiction / Classics
ISBN15303926599781530392650
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XxzmjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The knowledge of Major Frye's manuscript and the privilege of publishing it for the first time I owe to the kindness of two French ladies, the Misses G--. Their father, a well known artist and critic, used to spend the summer months at Saint Germain-en-Laye together with his wife, who was an English woman by birth. They had been for a long time intimately acquainted with Major Frye, who lived and ended his life in that quiet town. The Major's hostess, Mme. de W--, after his death in 1858, brought the manuscript to Mrs. G-- and gave it to her in memory of her friend. It was duly preserved in the G-- family, but remained unnoticed. The Misses G-- rediscovered it in 1907, when it had been lying in a cupboard for upwards of half a century. On their showing it to me I thought it was interesting for many reasons, and worthy of introduction to the public. I hope the reader will share my opinion, which is also that of several English scholars and men of letters, to whom I communicated extracts from the manuscript.