Excerpt from Annals of the Poor The A mm]: of Me Poor is not yet an obsolete book. Its dress may be a little antiquated, but a warm life throbs in it still. The scenes and characters it so lovingly, sympathizingly por trays, we feel to be a genuine bit of human life. This comes of writing from the heart, not from the head only, still less from other peeple's heads. How much loud logic and stormful debating of that period has fallen absolutely silent to us; while this small voice, like a perennial fountain leaping straight from the heart of nature, murmurs ou, and its music falls pleasant on the ear! 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.