Excerpt from Matthew Maris<br><br>Conversations which we had together ranged over many of those matters of deepest interest in life - not art alone, but philosophic, religious, and social questions would often form the subject of his talk; nor did he fail to give ex pression simply and directly to that which he truly felt and believed in. And, in addition, from time to time he told me all the leading facts of his own life, and many details of it, from boyhood up to the period of our first meeting - from the days of the little garret in his father's house he loved so well, and whence he said he never wished to wander forth into the world.<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.