HISTORIC BUBBLES
BY
F R E D E R I C L E A K E.
And these are of them.—Banquo.
Sont toujours les meilleurs.—La Fontaine.
ALBANY, N. Y.:
RIGGS PRINTING & PUBLISHING CO.,
1896.
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Copyright, 1896
BY
Riggs Printing and Publishing Company
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Duke of Berwick, | 7 |
| Captivity of Babylon, | 45 |
| The Second House of Burgundy, | 75 |
| Two Jaquelines, | 115 |
| Hoche, | 152 |
| An Interesting Ancestor of Queen Victoria, | 185 |
| John Wiclif, | 201 |
PREFACE
Once upon a time I was a member of that arch-erudite body, the Facultyof Williams College, and I took my turn in putting forth lecturestending or pretending to edification. I was not to the manner born, andhad indulged even to indigestion, in the reading of history. Theseebullitions are what came of that intemperance.
The manuscripts were lying harmless in a bureau drawer, under gynæcianstrata, when, last summer, a near and rummaging relative, a printer,unearthed them, read them, and asked leave to publish them. I refused;but after conventional hesitation, I—still vowing I would ne’erconsent—consented.