Download or read book Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (Classic Reprint) written by Frederick Waddy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day Meantime brave Shaw usurps the martial plain, And spreads the field with Gallic heaps of slain. The young poet was sent to Cambridge, where in 1825 he won the Chancellor's medal and after another volume of verse, gave the world Falkland, ' his first novel. A large part of this work is made up Of letters from one Of the characters to another; and the Old style of heading, From the same to the same, ' becomes very tedious, as they talk in vapid platitudes, slightly Spiced with Byronic morality. The preface is dated March 7, 1827. 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.