The Annual

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Excerpt from The Annual: Being a Selection From the Forget-Me-Nots, Keepsakes and Other Annuals of the Nineteenth CenturyThey were indeed admirably adapted to suit the Victorian taste. Every ingredient was skil fully included. Switzerland and Caledonia, romantic love and the triumph of virtue, femi nine modesty and manly strength, phantoms, ruins, graveyards, and wild valleys, the fruits of sportive fancy and the comfort of an ele vated moral tone - nothing was lacking to turn these little offerings into a deserved success.The form was compact, the binding dainty, and on the ¿y-leaf was frequently engraved a vignette with space to write the donor's name, and the recipient's, and any little graceful dedication as might be thought fit. What more suitable present for a gentleman to give a lady? Or a nephew, anxiously hunting for a Christ mas present for his aunt? One of the minor problems of life was solved - had been solved for the English nation by Mr. Ackermann, thoughtfully holding his taper to the gas-jet at 86 Strand. Not in vain was Mr. Ackermann a compatriot - although by anticipation - of the Prince Consort. He had hit the public taste exactly.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.