Excerpt from Roads and Vagabonds How often can an anthology exasperate! One reads how Polly said this, or Jack did that, and all the while the compiler neglects to tell us who these characters are, and one knows just as much, and just as little, about them as the man in the moon. But why the road at all some critic may protest. This is the age of the air. The road itself, perhaps, and that at no long time from the present, may become obsolete, fall to decay. The car, which now glides so smoothly upon it, may run over the round rim of the world to be parked with the coach, in that land Where Villon's ladies draw out their shadowy existence in com pany with the good King Charlemagne. 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.