Early & late papers hitherto uncollected. By William Makepeace Thackeray.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781425545840
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: SIR,-The man who makes the best salads in London, and whom, therefore, we have facetiously called Sultan Saladin, - a man who is conspicuous for his love and practice of all the polite arts, - music, to wit, architecture, painting, and cookery, - once took the humble personage who writes this into his library, and laid before me two or three volumes of manuscript year-books, such as, since he began to travel and to observe, he has been in the habit of keeping.