Excerpt from Friends in Council, Vol. 1: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon What tricks he and Milverton ufed to play me, pretending not to under-rand my demonfira tion of fome mathematical problem, inventing all manner of fubtle difficulties, and declaring they could not go on while thefe {tumbling blocks lay in their way But I am getting into college gofiip, which may in no way delight my readers. And I am fancying, too, that Milverton and Ellef mere are the boys they were to me: but I am now the child to them. During the years that I have been quietly living here, they have become verfed in the ways of the bufy world. And though they never think of afferting their fuperiority, I feel it, and am glad to do fo. 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.