Author: Harold F. B. Wheeler

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Published: 2015-07-03

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781330646274

Excerpt from The Story of Lord Roberts Autobiography and its half-brother biography are two of the most useful members of the great family of literature. Lord Roberts placed a high value on their services. His own fascinating Forty-One Years in India and his careful study of The Rise of Wellington are sufficient proofs of this. If further guarantee were necessary I have it in a letter he wrote to me a little over a year before the outbreak of the South African War. "The example of men who have got on in the world," he says, "cannot fail to stimulate boys to work hard themselves." It is equally certain that children of an older growth are no less susceptible, although they are apt to be a little more critical in their judgment. Throughout his long life, for instance, Roberts always retained his youthful affection for John Nicholson: "Nicholson impressed me more profoundly than any man I had ever met before, or have ever met since. I have never seen anyone like him. He was the beau-ideal of a soldier and a gentleman." Had Carlyle delivered his lectures on 'Heroes' half a century later than 1840, and had he designed to include living subjects, he would almost certainly have selected for his roll the victor of Kandahar. According to the Sage of Chelsea, sincerity is the first characteristic of heroism and originality: "No man adequate to do anything, but is first of all in right earnest about it." 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.