Excerpt from Byways in Bookland: Confessions and Digressions The pages which follow make no pretension to literary criticism; they are a simple record of happy and memorable hours spent in the com pany of favourite books, and a tribute of grati tude to their authors. Books have been my companions from boyhood; and if the record here traced is only the means of introducing a few other boys to such congenial society, I shall not be ashamed of having been egotistic enough to set down some of my own impressions and. 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.