Excerpt from Winterslow: Essays and Characters Written There Monition to the hostler. The sound, coming throu h the clear, pure air, was another agreeable feature in t e day, reminiscentiary of the great city that my father so loved and so loathed. In olden times, when we lived in the village itself - a mile up the hill opposite - behind the Hut, Salisbury Plain stretches away mile after mile of open space - the reminiscence of the metro lis would be, from time to time, furnished in the p easantest of ways by the presence of some London friends; among these, dearly loved and honoured there, as everywhere else, Charles and Mary Lamb paid us frequent visits, rambling about all the time, thorough Londoners in a thoroughly country place, delighted and wondering and wondered at. For such reasons, and for the other reason, which I mention incidentally, that Winterslow is my own native place, I have given its name to this collection of 'essays and Characters written there'; as, indeed, practically were very many of his works, for it was there that most of his thinking was done. William hazlitt. Chelsea, Jan. 1850. 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.