Excerpt from The Patient Observer: And His FriendsOF the papers that go to make up the present volume, the greater number were published as a series in the columns of the New York Even ing Post for 1910, under the general title of The Patient Observer. For the eminently lauda ble purpose of making a fairly thick book, the Patient Observer's frequently recurrent I.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.