Auteur: H. G. Dwight

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This substantial account of Constantinople – or Istanbul as it is known today – is both a history and a guide to that magnificent and fabled metropolis where east and west have met for many centuries …

This substantial account of Constantinople – or Istanbul as it is known today – is both a history and a guide to that magnificent and fabled metropolis where east and west have met for many centuries …

If literature could be governed by law—which, very happily, to the despair of grammarians, it can not—there should be an act prohibiting any one, on pain of death, ever to quote again or …

Excerpt: "A number of years ago it happened to the writer of this book to live in Venice. He accordingly read, as every good English-speaking Venetian does, Mr. Howells’s "Venetian Life.&qu …

Excerpt: "What was he like? H’m! That’s rather a large order. What are people like, I wonder? Some of them are like dogs. There are plenty of poodles and bull pups walking around on two legs. So …