Excerpt from Truth Dexter The novel, Truth Dexter, was composed substantially as at present published, during the year 1897. The time chosen for its action was the close of President Cleve land's second administration. The conversations of the middle chapters, with Lord Gayrock, embody opinions which were already strongly felt by the author before the war with Spain and more recent complications in the East made some of them appear strikingly prophetic. Though the whole work has since undergone much re vision in detail, it ...
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Excerpt from Truth Dexter The novel, Truth Dexter, was composed substantially as at present published, during the year 1897. The time chosen for its action was the close of President Cleve land's second administration. The conversations of the middle chapters, with Lord Gayrock, embody opinions which were already strongly felt by the author before the war with Spain and more recent complications in the East made some of them appear strikingly prophetic. Though the whole work has since undergone much re vision in detail, it has been thought best to leave the political discussion in its original form; for any attempt to strengthen the arguments of Craighead by reference to the exciting events of the last three years could only have obscured the action of the story. The author pre fers the book to remain a picture of feelings and relations really subsisting between North and South just before that crisis in our history which brought the two sections, let us hope forever, into a common enthusiasm for a. 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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