Excerpt from My Discovery of England It is usual on these occasions for the chair man to begin something like this: The lecturer, I am sure, needs no introduction from me. And indeed, When I have been the lecturer and somebody else has been the chairman, I have more than once suspected myself of being the better man of the two. Of course I hope I should always have the good manners - I am sure Mr. Leacock has - to disguise that sus picion. However, one has to go through these formalities, and I Will therefore introduce the lecturer to you. 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.