Excerpt from The Royal Holiday and Young Students' Book, Vol. 1 of 1: Being the Holiday Book for the Young Another edition of the Holiday Book calls for no apology, as its success and popularity have been long ago acknowledged. It may, however, be proper to state, that the present edition has been both enlarged and improved; many statements that were correct ten years since have been found capable of modifica tion, and it has therefore been thought better to submit the whole book to revision. It is now printed from new type, with new engravings, and on good paper. In the second series there are inserted many new subjects and, while the scope of the whole remains unaltered, the language has, in many places, been simplified, so as to render it more acceptable to youthful readers. If the juveniles of the present day find the Holiday Book as amusing and instructive as did their fathers and mothers, the aim of both author and publisher will be fully answered. 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.