HISTORIC BUBBLES

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BY

F R E D E R I C   L E A K E.



 

The earth has bubbles as the water has,
And these are of them.Banquo.
Mais les ouvrages les plus courts
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

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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

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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.

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