Excerpt from Leisure Hours: One Hundred and Fifty Sketches, With Pen and Pencil, for Home Entertainment
Ilton has said A good book is the precious life M blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. For our readers, we have tried to gather such selections only as are worthy to be embalmed and treasured up.
If we have succeeded in avoiding anything like a text book upon literature, we have carried out the plan of our work. If we have succeeded in gathering up selections that are worthy of being called treasu/res, we have accomplished the object that we had in view. Then if our book finds a warm place in the heart of the reading public, our most earnest desire will be fully gratified.
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.
