Excerpt from The Certain Hour (Dizain Des Poëtes)<br><br>Three other damning ob j eetions will readily obtrude themselves: The Certain Hour deals with past epochs - beginning before the introduction of dinner-forks, and ending at that remote quaint period when people used to waltz and two-step - dead eras in which we average-novel-readers are not interested; The Certain Hour assumes an appreciable amount of culture and information on its purchaser's part, which we average novel-readers either lack or, else, are unaccustomed to employ in connection with reading for pastime; and - in our eyes the crowning misdemeanor - The Certain Hour is not vital.<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.