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'Madeira' was most popular in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, especially at the Court of Francois I. Shakespeare in 'Henry IV. makes drouthy Jack sell his soul on Good Friday for a cup of Madeira and a cold capon's leg. Mr. H. Vizetelly, whose professional work should be read by all who would master the subject, marvels why and how this 'magnificent wine' went out of fashion.
First French Defeats A Great Victory rumoured The Marseillaise, Capoul and Marie Sass Edward Vizetelly brings News of Forbach to Paris Emile Ollivier again His Fall from Power Cousin Montauban, Comte de Palikao English War Correspondents in Paris Gambetta calls me "a Little Spy" More French Defeats Palikao and the Defence of Paris Feats of a Siege Wounded returning from the Front Wild Reports of French Victories The Quarries of Jaumont The Anglo-American Ambulance The News of Sedan Sala's Unpleasant Adventure The Fall of the Empire.
Said he, 'I have been asking Mr. Avory for you. You are Mr. Vizetelly, I believe? 'That is my name, I answered. 'Well, I have come to speak to you about M. Zola's presence in England. I should here mention that, in spite of my contradiction of the 'Chronicle' story, there remained some people who had reason to believe it.
Sampson Low, the well-known London publisher, we have the following interesting statement regarding it: "The first edition printed in London was in April, 1852, by Henry Vizetelly, in a neat volume at ten and sixpence, of which he issued 7,000 copies. He received the first copy imported, through a friend who had bought it in Boston the day the steamer sailed, for his own reading. He gave it to Mr.
During the Easter holidays of 1864 Garibaldi came to England. My uncle, Frank Vizetelly, was the chief war-artist of that period, the predecessor, in fact, of the late Melton Prior. He knew Garibaldi well, having first met him during the war of 1859, and having subsequently accompanied him during his campaign through Sicily and then on to Naples afterwards, moreover, staying with him at Caprera.
During my stay in Paris with my father I had assisted him in preparing several articles, and had written others on my own account. My eldest brother, Adrian Vizetelly, was at this time assistant-secretary at the Institution of Naval Architects.
Francis Lawley, Special Correspondent to the Times, and Mr. Vizetelly, Special Correspondent of the Illustrated London News, round the Confederate camps. "By order of General Lee," he says, "I introduced the party to General Jackson. We were all seated in front of General Jackson's tent, and he took up the conversation.
Sometimes when a book offends against the public morals, and contains the outpourings of a voluptuous imagination, its author is condemned to lament in confinement over his indecorous pages. The world knows that Vizetelly, the publisher, was imprisoned for translating and publishing some of Zola's novels.
To the foregoing account of "Lourdes" as supplied by its author, it may be added that the present translation, first made from early proofs of the French original whilst the latter was being completed, has for the purposes of this new American edition been carefully and extensively revised by Mr. E. A. Vizetelly, M. Zola's representative for all English-speaking countries.
For a few years afterwards he remained in London assisting his eldest brother James to run what was probably the first of the society journals, Echoes of the Clubs, to which Mortimer Collins and the late Sir Edmund Monson largely contributed. However, Frank Vizetelly went back to America once again, this time with Wolseley on the Red River Expedition.
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