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Here is an English translation of his first book, "The turkish Affair" and it is a free e-book. https://books.google.com/books?id=dy0NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA171&lpg=PA1
by SCAQTony 11y ago
Here is an English translation of his first book, "The turkish Affair" and it is a free e-book.
https://books.google.com/books?id=dy0NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=the+turkish+affair+villiers&source=bl&ots=cCmNkexkJw&sig=jhi4EylJbuBqZeU5nVVKWpV4pHw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAWoVChMIt5O8_tnexgIVzwuSCh3CQQD2#v=onepage&q=the%20turkish%20affair%20villiers&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=dy0NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA171&lpg=...
- Cd00d 11y agoThank you. When the article first popped in the NYTimes I couldn't easily find English copies of his books. I was curious, but didn't follow through.
- ableal 11y agoFencepost error, you're off by one century (and one first name) ... P.S. A cursory search hooked me up with this most scrumptious page of Spectator archives, featuring OCR text and zoomable images of the original pages for a June 1853 issue: http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/25th-june-1853/1/the-turkish-affair-has-taken-a-turn-which-rather-p http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/25th-june-1853/1/the-... Besides the arch deriding of a Russian '"circular note," which professes to be condescendingly frank, is equivocatingly dishonest, and cannot help being arrogantly insolent' , on the image of page 2 there's a concise report on a House of Lord's debate on the introduction of an income tax, expected to be abolished in 1860 ...
- SCAQTony 11y agoI blew that, my apologies.
- nl 11y agoThis isn't the same author.