Excerpt from Cadet Life at West Point: With a Descriptive Sketch of West Point Indulgent reader, - I am not vain enough to suppose that the appearance Of my name on the title-page of this work, will create any more Of a sensation, than would a prediction that the Union is to be dissolved, or the announcement, in the morning papers, Of the death of John Smith. I must, therefore, go through the whole formulary of the Preface. For every new candi date for literary glory seems to imagine his con temporaries, as well as all posterity, seizing him by the throat, and demanding his motives. The truth is, my motives are principally nega tive. I penned these lines when and because I had nothing else to do. 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.