Excerpt from Western Literary Journal and Monthly Review, Vol. 1: November, 1844 We have only, in conclusion, to express our hope, that the day is not far distant, when the friends of literature and science in the western country may feel more generally disposed to en courage literary efforts in their own community, and when the public may, with more zeal than at present, afford to them that patronage, without which they cannot permanently succeed. 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.