Excerpt from The Calcutta Review, Vol. 37: September-December, 1861 It was as if a coarse hand had rubbed off the delicate tints of that sweet picture and brought it, as one has seen unskilful painting cleaners do, to the dead colour. Also, it must be owned, that for a year or two after the malady her ladyship's nose was swollen and redder.' 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.