This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...la szirmi, there could be no ermined judges and no ma?trcs dcs /zazms-u;'uvns. The general methods employed in this obscure but indispensable preliminary work are much like those made use of elsewhere in civilized countries, but there are many details, not generally published, which are interesting, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...la szirmi, there could be no ermined judges and no ma?trcs dcs /zazms-u;'uvns. The general methods employed in this obscure but indispensable preliminary work are much like those made use of elsewhere in civilized countries, but there are many details, not generally published, which are interesting, and we are indebted to a spirited newspaper article, by M. Guy Tomel, for some information concerning the He begins by putting in a plea for these very useful employes of jus ways and means of the French police in these matters. tice: "Have you ever thought of the very material difficulties which the agents de la surete have to encounter in arresting malefactors? These modest defenders of society risk their lives daily that you may sleep in peace, Madame, and earn less at this peril 'ous trade than your coachman or your 7'a/ct dc c/zambre. For their moral recompense, they have the prospect of being treated as 'nzouc/zards' police spies, not by the thieves and the assassins, who call them the 'flics, ' but by the respectable tax-payers who are indebted to them for the minimum of security which we possess. "If, by chance, some of the chiefs of this force, as Houillier, Jaume, and Rossignol, succeed, by dint of acts of bravery, in causing their names to be known to the general public, the private soldiers of this army of real salvation live and die in the most perfect im'ognito, fortunate if they succeed in attaining the age of retirement without being crippled by some malicious stroke! Remember that they are obliged to carry out their task without arms, without any brutality. A bandit injured in a hand-to-hand struggle assumes very quickly the character of an interesting victim, and there are always to be...
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Good. Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son, 1898. Volume 1 only. Folio. 337pp. Plates, illus., maps. Good book. Rebound in half leather. Spine ends and front joints worn. Binding torn at corners; boards and corners edgeworn. Inquire if you need further information.
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Near Fine. First edition. 9 Parts (of 10, lacking Part 8). Folios. Pictoral cloth portfolios with extensive and beautiful illustrations and plates. Some string ties broken or lacking, edges of a few leaves a little worn, else a nice, near fine incomplete set. Set number 170 of 1000 numbered sets.
