Excerpt from The Second Book of Ovid's Tristia: A Public Lecture Delivered in the Hall of Corpus Christi College on Wednesday, May 28, 1913This second book is a letter addressed to Augustus, and it seems worth while to give a short abstract of its contents, full as they are of varied information on Roman literature.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.