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The best of newspapers is in its physical essence ephemeral, and its substance is like breath upon glass. If we miss it for a week, it is lost for ever, and lost are all the labour and solicitude of the artist. In any case, therefore, I must have clung to some of these pygmy children of my pen, but (positively) quite a number of their original auditors have asked to have them reprinted. It amuses me to revive the old rubric published by request of friends and I respond with alacrity, lest the demand should be withdrawn. 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.
