Books with author L.J. Ritchie

Excerpt from Travelling Sketches on the Rhine, and in Belgium and Holland: With Twenty-Six Beautifully Finished Engravings, From Drawings by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq.IT has often been remarked, with ridicule, that in England, 'when two acquaintances meet, they find it impossible to enter into any discourse, however immediately interesting, without the preface of How do you do? Or a fine day as it may happen. Where is the great harm? Would to Apollo that some such conventional rule were established for the meetings of author and reader! What a knitting of brows and gnawing of pen stumps it would save! Every thing, in fact, must have a preface. We cannot even go into a room, where there are only a few poor denizens of the earth like ourselves, without bowing down to the Baal of ceremony. But there is no harm in the bow it is the stiffness of it that makes it ridiculous. And what is the cause of this stiffness? It is vanity and egoism. If we thought more of the company.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from Travelling Sketches on the Rhine, and in Belgium and Holland: With Twenty-Six Beautifully Finished Engravings, From Drawings by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq.IT has often been remarked, with ridicule, that in England, 'when two acquaintances meet, they find it impossible to enter into any discourse, however immediately interesting, without the preface of How do you do? Or a fine day as it may happen. Where is the great harm? Would to Apollo that some such conventional rule were established for the meetings of author and reader! What a knitting of brows and gnawing of pen stumps it would save! Every thing, in fact, must have a preface. We cannot even go into a room, where there are only a few poor denizens of the earth like ourselves, without bowing down to the Baal of ceremony. But there is no harm in the bow it is the stiffness of it that makes it ridiculous. And what is the cause of this stiffness? It is vanity and egoism. If we thought more of the company.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.