Excerpt from Forty Minutes With a Crank or the Seldarte Craze, 1889: A Farce Professor A Molt. Iron-gray wig, bald on top; old-fashioned suit of any kind spectacles worn low down on his nose, so that he looks over the top of them. His manner is quick and jerky. The description of the system on page 9 should be given with rapid but distinct utterance, great enthusiasm, and many gestures. 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.