Excerpt from A Gentle Knight of Old Brandenburg To a great majority of persons having the good fortune to possess an imagination, prin cesses as a class are exceedingly attractive. Long ago, kings and princes were found to be of the earth very earthy, and the fact that the clay of which they are made is nothing bet ter than what in the human pottery might be called Common Adam Yellow has become so well known that romance and male royalty have grown to be things apart, even to the imagina tive mind. 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.