Excerpt from New Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 of 2: And Book of the Months A Preface may with some show of likelihood be compared to the confessional, wherein the public listens and absolves, while the author plays the part of penitent, although it often chances that the culprit is rather bent upon proving how little than how much he has been in fault. 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.

Curiosities of Literature is a three volume anthology gathered by British scholar Isaac D'Israeli. The work contains countless anecdotes about historical persons and events, unusual books, and the habits of book-collectors. It offers a diversified miscellany of literary, artistic, and political history, of critical disquisition and biographic anecdote._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_

Excerpt from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 of 2: Consisting of Anecdotes, Characters, Sketches, and Observations, Literary, Critical, and Historical In the historical section, I propofed to arrange thofe incidents which might ferve as materials for a hi ory of human na ture to trace the ufurpations of tyranny, and the glory of freedom as is done in the account - of the Pouliats, and the Pouliches, taken from the Abbe Raynal, and which is contrafted withwthe Thirteen Cantons. 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."