Excerpt from The Married Life of Rachel Lady Russell As romance is so much in request, why not search for it in history? There, will be found life, with its most varied and dramatic scenes, the human heart with its strongest as well as its most gentle passions, and above all a sovereign charm, the charm of reality. I admire and appreciate as much as any person the creative power of imagination, which places before us endowed with life, animation and feeling, ideal beings invested with the attributes of humanity, and display ing all the riches of the mind through the ever-varying vicissitudes of fortune; but those persons who have really lived, who have actually experienced calami ties, passions, joys and sorrows, the contemplation of which is so interesting to us, fascinate me still more powerqy than the most perfect productions of poe try or romance. The living creature, the work of God, when seen under its divine aspects, is more beau tiful than all human creation, and of all poets God is the greatest. 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.