Excerpt from Tfie Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 3: June-November, 1869<br><br>We are not going to say that the worthy Doctor's praise and censure were not both alike just;' but other times, other manners. Even the special cunning of the Johnsonian pen would be at fault in these days, when it is an act of grace to see merits in contemporary work, and be modestly, if not honestly, dumb about your own. Respect for the customs of our predecessors keeps up in our New Series this honoured title of Preface while a proper submission to the tastes of the day makes us content to leave our labours to the judgment of the public.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.