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Excerpt from The Coming Terror, and Other Essays and Letters Scarcely is "The Coming Terror' issued to the world than a second edition is called for - which is satisfactory enough, as showing that even the trades-union of Criticism cannot quite kill an outspoken book by a non-union man. Here and there, indeed, to my astonishment, the work has received words of actual approval, qualified, of course, with a suggestion that it need not be taken quite seriously; but, as I write, the good old three-decker newspapers are beginning to take listless aim with their heavy guns at my cockle-shell. The Times sends a sleepy projectile, which falls, as usual, far short of the mark; the good old ship Observer deigns to fire a random and rusty shot, while thundering heavily and internally about "gospel according to Buchanan' and "angry philippics"; and The Speaker, a new boat of the top-heavy species, tries to run down the cockle-shell on the score that the conduct of its pilot is 'ungentlemanly.' Altogether, I have to congratulate myself on a fair measure of old-fashioned abuse. 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.