Excerpt from Gaiety ChroniclesThe subject, as far as the writer is concerned, has one great drawback. He knows it only too thor oughly. There is little or no scope for fancy or imagination. A study of twenty or thirty years has accumulated a store of facts, while it has destroyed far too many illusions, and vestiges of romance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.