Excerpt from Royal Road to Happiness; Or the Picture Preacher: A Book of Pictures, Fables, Allegories and Anecdotes Preacher, is so called because it is designed, by the use of pictures, to instruct in the wise conduct of human life, so that its readers may journey in the Royal Road to Happiness, both here and hereafter. 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.