Excerpt from Studies, Literary and SocialThis volume has been made partly out of selections from a series of Class Lectures at the Peabody Institute, in Baltimore, and partly from articles contributed to several American Reviews during the last twenty years. Written in the intervals of business engrossments, they lay no claim to very earnest thoughtfulness, but are merely running observations upon several subjects of literary and social interest, and are submitted to the public with whatever degree of modesty may be regarded consistent with such submission at all.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.