The Gift of the Emperor
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781419163760
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: WHEN the King of the Cannibal Islands made faces at Queen Victoria, and a European monarch set the cables tingling with his compliments of the exploit, the indignation in England was not less than the surprise, for the thing was not so common as it has since become.