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Excerpt from A Bookman's Budget Despite the pitfalls of a Preface, a few words are required to explain the origin and growth of this desultory miscellany. During an enforced suspension of plans and projects, I found it expedient to take up some temporary occupation. Casting about for the needful initial suggestion, I happened on an old note-book in which, for several years, it had been my practice to jot down extracts from my reading which had either appealed to me personally or had influenced my writing. These I began to transcribe; and speedily found them multiply under my pen. Then, in quest of further material, I went on to forage among certain forgotten causeries I had once contributed to a nowextinct periodical, adding, from time to time, divers stray copies of bookish versicles not yet comprised in any collection of my poems. Presently an encouraging friend suggested that I might 'enliven my character' by including a few original adversaria on things in general. This I at once essayed to do; and thus came gradually to intersperse sundry detached passages from my printed prose - passages which, to my over-heated imagination, appeared to invite an attention they had not hitherto obtained. The outcome of my labours is the present compilation. As will be apparent, it is mainly literary. 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.