The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday
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The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday is described as some random reminiscences of a British diplomat, by Lord Frederic Hamilton. The foreword to the second edition says that alterations have been made at the special request of the lady concerned, who tells the writer that his recollections of her story were at fault as regards several important details. The writer says he can never remember having heard literature discussed in any form whatever at Berlin.
The text says the Kremlin Palace may not be in the best of taste, but that its huge halls have jasper and malachite columns and profuse gilding. The text says St. George's Hall is 200 feet long and 60 feet high, and that the other great halls, named after the Russian Orders of Chivalry, are nearly as large. The text says the old families in Japan have a custom of presenting every European guest with a little black-and-gold lacquer box, two inches high, full of sweetmeats.
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- Author
- Frederic Hamilton
- Pages
- 180
- Language
- English
- Genre
- European History
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