Author : Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu
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ISBN 13 : 9781330570043
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Book Synopsis The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) by : Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu
Download or read book The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians, Vol. 1 However sparingly I made use of the latitude left me in the matter of annotation, this addition to the original work threatened to swell the English volume to a more than reasonable bulk. It became necessary, therefore, to have recourse to condensation. This delicate and responsible operation being necessarily left to my discretion, caused me more care and anxiety than all the rest of the work put together. Very rarely, very cautiously and lightly, with a fear on me as of committing sacrilege, I proceeded to abbreviate a paragraph here and there. Not so much by elimination - for it is but seldom that several lines or as much as half a page at once have been omitted - as by persistent compression, on the same principle as a pound of down, when compressed, is a pound still, though its volume is diminished. "What will the author say to this passage? - or this? - or this?" was the test question always present before my mind, and it was my standard that he should not be able to detect the abbreviations at the first reading unless he knew where they were made. After long and careful deliberation, it was thought advisable to depart from the ordinary custom of having but one index for a work of so great compass, and of placing this complete index at the end of the last volume. Every student knows how utterly unpractical and disconcerting such a system is, and will thankfully welcome an innovation which places all the references within easy reach and frees him from the necessity of cumbering himself with a big book otherwise unneeded, not to speak of the discomfort of doing without an index at all until the publication of the third volume, which naturally cannot take place for some considerable time after the first appears. 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.
