Excerpt from Gossip of the Century, Vol. 3 of 4: Personal and Traditional Memories Social Literary Artistic Etc The kind insistence of public and publishers has forced me to undertake the task, for which I am little fitted, of preparing for the press some of the unfinished materials put together by my late sister for her volumes of personal reminiscences, of which two have already met with so favourable a reception under the title of Gossip of the Century. Ifound among her mss. Left to me ample matter laid up for new volumes, but the selection and arrangement of it was a business outside my usual walk, and therefore my mode of dealing with it must be often faulty. I do not pretend to the capacity needed to work it up in the most perfect way, and could only do my little best, and crave indulgence if I be found to have sometimes put the cart before the horse, or even left it like an ugly motor car to go without any home at all, and perhaps burst up. 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.