Excerpt from The Earnest Student: Being Memorials of John Mackintosh We speak not only for ourselves, but for a large circle of those who were more or less intimately acquainted with Mackintosh, and all of whom we feel confident will re-echo what we now say, and would sign this letter with us if convenience permitted. We urge, further, that this work, while we desire to see it in the most modest form it can assume - the more truly to answer to the character of him it commemorates - should be given to the public. 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.