Download or read book A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age written by S. C. Hall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-18 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age: From Personal Acquaintance It will be Obvious that there are not many to whom the task I undertake is possible. To have been personally acquainted with a large proportion Of those who head the epoch, infers a youth long past, yet passed under circumstances such as could have been enjoyed by few. Some of whom I write had put on immortality before the greater number of my readers were born: one gene ration has passed away, and another has attained its prime, since the period to which I, take them back for I write only Of the Departed - only Of those who. 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.