Excerpt from Literary Hours, or Sketches, Critical and Narrative, Vol. 1 of 2 In the present hour of difficulty and danger, when politics and finance appear so entirely to occupy the public mind, it is little to be ex. Pected that subjects of fancy and mere elegant literature should greatly excite attention, or meet with adequate support. Long however as our eyes have been now turned on scenes of turbulence and anarchy, long as we have list ened with horror to the storm which has swept over Europe with such ungovernable ...
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Excerpt from Literary Hours, or Sketches, Critical and Narrative, Vol. 1 of 2 In the present hour of difficulty and danger, when politics and finance appear so entirely to occupy the public mind, it is little to be ex. Pected that subjects of fancy and mere elegant literature should greatly excite attention, or meet with adequate support. Long however as our eyes have been now turned on scenes of turbulence and anarchy, long as we have list ened with horror to the storm which has swept over Europe with such ungovernable fury, it must, I should imagine, prove highly grateful, highly soothing to the wearied mind, to occa' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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