Excerpt from Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 29: Conducted by the Students of Yale College As the eyes of a classmate accidentally fell upon our theme, stand ing forth prominently at the 'top of a blank page, he almost sneeringly remarked that it was worn out, and had already been written upon in every number of the Lit.' However chilling and dispara ging this remark may then have been to us, just entering upon a literary career, we have determined to breast the tide of opinion which may style our production dry and pointless, and rise snperiorto every hind rance to our saying and writing just what comes into our mind in the shape of honest convictions. What theme, pray, is not already worn threadbare? Yet does it argue, since such is the case, that nothing more need be said or written npon worn themes. Far from it. Were such a correct inference, we would cheerfully resign at once our Edi, totial chair to one Who will dispense to you from a more fertile brain than ours, continually, something new. 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.