Forty Years of Spy (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Forty Years of Spy (Classic Reprint) written by Leslie Ward and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Forty Years of Spy I have often been asked to record my recollections and impressions of the many interesting men and women I have met in the course of my long professional career as a cartoonist and portrait painter, when - particularly during my association with Vanity Fair - I met practically every person of note in the London world of the last forty years. I have at length succumbed to the invitation. Unfortunately I have never kept a diary, and my main source of reminiscence must therefore be my memory; and had that been as lasting for the important events of later life as it has been for lesser occasions of inexperienced youth, my book would be the more entertaining. Certainly a journal of the talk and wit my studio has heard would have been of great interest. I have always encouraged my sitters to talk, and I only wish I could have remembered all the conversations that passed in those pleasant days and the amusing stories told to me; but it has not been possible to retain them in a comprehensive degree - when I was engrossed in the study of my subject and the resultant presentation of his features and personality. 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.