Excerpt from Oliver Cromwell: Daniel De Foe, Sir Richard Steele, Charles Churchill, Samuel Foote; Biographical Essays Of. These biographical essays, three have been published in the Edinburgh Review, and two in the Quarterly Review but all, as they are now printed, have received careful revision, and, excepting only the first, large additions. Not for this should I have pre sumed, however, to give them a form less dependent, and more accessible, than that of the distinguished periodicals m which they appeared originally. A more numerous 1ssue of volumes from the press 1s not among the wants of the time. But from the first these Essays were independent biographical studies, and not reviews in the ordinary sense. Such information and opinions as they embodied were their own; and their design was to supply, in a compact original form, what it seemed desiiable to possess, but impossible elsewhere to obtain, upon the particular subjects treated. 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.