The Clifton Picture

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Excerpt from The Clifton Picture: A Novel Some memories of personal adventure, some rude outlines of real character, and some fragments of Oriental superstition are here brought together to form The Clifton Picture. The colours have been applied at odd times, during brief pauses in a busy life, whose chief energies are employed in a far different field from the ¿owery domain of literature. No artistic arrangement of contrasts and harmonies, of lights and shadows, has been attempted. The recital of actual experiences, in former books, has once and again been at tributed to the vagaries of fancy, and it is probable a similar criti oism awaits the present volume. But the cases are rare in which an unknown writer has received such gentle treatment from readers and critics, and no one can be more profoundly sensible of this kind reception, nor more heartily grateful for it, than the author of. 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.