Excerpt from The Reign of George Vi;, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763; Republished, With Preface and Notes Like all books of its kind, The Reign of George VI. Has two sides. The author was not merely exercising the faculty of prophecy according to his lights, but was intending to influence the men of his own day by pointing out, in the actions of his puppets - George VI., the Dukes of Bedford and Suffolk, and the rest - what ought to be done and what avoided in the Year of Grace 1763. In domestic politics he was a Tory; his nightmare was the perpetuation of that battle of the kites and crows - the objectless strife of the Whig factions - which had endured for the last two genera tions. His panacea was the more active interference of the king with his ministers, and the recent doings of George III. Had much encouraged him. Like the monarch whom he would fain advise, he must have been reading Bolingbroke's Patriot King, and dream ing of the realization of its ideals. Unfortunately, the young sovereign from whom he hoped so much is not the Farmer George of reality, but a sort of more amiable Frederick the Great - a Heaven-sent general, who is also an enthusiastic patron of arts and letters. Did our author, we wonder, survive to learn the modesty of King George's military aspirations, or to hear of his interesting literary criticism as to Shakespeare's works being sad stuff - only one must not say so? 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.