Excerpt from Cosmopolitan Recollections, Vol. 1 of 2 To chronicle the memories awakened by these fleeting apparitions, without invading the territory of the historian, the censor, or the critic, has been the aim of these volumes. Honestly expressed individual impressions and frank per sonal judgment, 'may lay themselves open to con troversy and contradiction - for there never were and never will be two points of view exactly similar, the slightest change in the focus altering the likeness - but they must be exonerated from the charge of sycophantic flattery or ill-natured prejudice. 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.