Excerpt from The Silhouette, Vol. 1: January, 1916 All this was more than a quarter of a century ago. How could one suppose that the unpretentious tale would endure through the lapse of years? Yet in a week or two it will appear again in a brave new dress, with illuminated borders to its pages, and richly colored illustrations, properly grateful, I hope, but never scornful of the paper covers in which it was born. I have just written a preface to' that new edition, a preface in which -i have addressed, not the public, but the book itself, which has grown, through the passage of time, to possess a kind of entity of its own. 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.