Excerpt from International VanitiesThe accidents of occupation lead us sometimes into Odd byways, where, in looking for one thing, we find another.These chapters are a product of this sort of wandering. They have ¿oated to the surface of other work, and have been skimmed off it as they rose.With such an origin, they can have no preten sion to be more than sketches, they do not seek to teach, but simply to draw attention to some half unperceived yet not unamusing forms of vanity.No authorities are quoted, the reason being that footnotes and lists of reference present a mask of learning which would be out of place here.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.