Excerpt from The House of Smith Elder The story of Smith 8: Elder is the story of just a hundred years, from the early times of the post-napoleonic peace to the middle of the world war against Kaiserdom. It is the story, in the main, of a publishing house, differing from other publishing houses in this, that for half of its existence, it was but one department of a vast business, one enterprise among the many which were directed by the same head. 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.