Excerpt from Laurel Leaves: Original Poems, Stories, and Essays The exceptional combination of authors, especially of American authors, presented in the list of contents, at once suggests the varied and significant interest centred in the volume, as well as its distinctive character. As to the freshness of the various contributions in prose and poetry, it should be stated that but three of the thirty-eight papers contained in the work have ever previously been printed in book form, while a large proportion of them have been written expressly for the volume. 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.