Excerpt from Punch, 1901: Vols. CXX-CXXIManager, I plead the occasion as sufficient apology for my appearance, with these few inadequate words, before the curtain which, by the time this number appears, will have already risen on the First Scene of the Great World-wide Drama of The New Century. F. C. B.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.