Excerpt from Shaking Hands With England The world has indeed moved since those days; and I wonder if we can ever drop back into the era of locally sensational newspaper headings. Has our ap petite for news become so whetted that never again will a single murder case hold our attention at the breakfast table? You remember Horace Walpole's remark that he could scarcely wait for his daily jour nal, since news of fresh victories was literally brought in with the toast. How tame his day was, as com pared with ours, and how ...
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Excerpt from Shaking Hands With England The world has indeed moved since those days; and I wonder if we can ever drop back into the era of locally sensational newspaper headings. Has our ap petite for news become so whetted that never again will a single murder case hold our attention at the breakfast table? You remember Horace Walpole's remark that he could scarcely wait for his daily jour nal, since news of fresh victories was literally brought in with the toast. How tame his day was, as com pared with ours, and how little cereal he would have consumed had he been living now! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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