Excerpt from Pastorals of France This is the Third Edition of 'pastorals of France' and the Second of Renunciations.' Pastorals of France - *which had originally appeared in Temple Bar' was first published as a volume in 1877. The Second Edition appeared in 1878. Renunciations' - of which one section, A Chemist in the Suburbs, ' had appeared in The Fortnightly Review -was first published as a volume in 1893. The First Edition was limited to Four Hundred and Fifty copies, including those on. 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.