Excerpt from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Vol. 69: January to June, 1898 Wolseley of being spoiled. Success almost unvarying, great station, considerable power have not changed him in the least, he is still as unpretending, as simple minded, as kind hearted as ever. He is a man of wide catholic tastes he has a keen appreciation of art, and in early days drew with pleasing facility; he is a lover of all old curios, has a trained eye for Chippendale and Sheraton, and with Lady Wolseley's assist ance - staunch true helpmate in far more than this - has collected innumerable art treasures. His tastes are not exactly sporting, but he dearly loves a good horse, and would far rather ride one than a bicycle, indeed his chief joy is to gallop over the breezy downs with his only daughter by his side. He loves books as books, and has a house full of them; he is an omnivorous and indefatigable reader, giving to books for choice the hours of first freshness, for he is no lie-a-bed, but turns out early every morning to read and study. This custom is in a large measure the secret of the vast amount of work he gets through, and ex plains the production of that excellent life of Marlborough which has placed him in the first flight of military historians. 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.