Cambridge Staircase (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Cambridge Staircase Whether modern books do not require it, or whether their authors lack the modesty of those of past generations, I know not, but at any rate the custom of prefixing an elaborate apology to a book seems nowadays to have fallen into comparative disuse. Modern prefaces do not, as a rule, so often expatiate on and attempt to explain away the demerits of the works they herald forth, as they appear rather to try to enforce on their readers how great would have been the loss had they not been published. But in spite of all that these prefaces have said, I have sometimes thought that something has been wanting, if it is only the secondary reasons for the publication of the work, say, occasionally in the case of poetic effusions, that the author felt bad inside. And now that I am called upon to write a few prefatory remarks to this book, I feel that some sort of apology is due to the public, at the very least, for the exceedingly unfinished state in which it has appeared, if not for other deficiencies in it. The true state of the case is, that I never intended the book to appear at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.