Excerpt from Under the Evening Lamp There are among these papers studies of some of these unfortunates, and, I dare say, there is a lesson in these studies, though I have not sought to find it. It is enough for me to tell the tale; others may point the moral. I have been more interested in their lives than in their writings, my object being biographical rather than criti cal, and if I have succeeded in interesting the reader in these outlines of biography, I have done what I tried to do. He will find some things here, I think, which he will not readily find elsewhere, and others, I hope, which, new or old, will help him to pass a quiet hour under the evening lamp. 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.