Excerpt from A Battling Life, Chiefly in the Civil Service: An Autobiography With Fugitive Papers on Subjects of Public Importance Object has been, not to trouble my readers with 3? Minute details of family and domestic concerns LL. Not to set down thoughts or opinions which in syearly life are but the reflex of parental educa $tion, and in after life are perhaps best kept 3) within the breast of the thinker, unless in the case of experts, specialists, and public teachers; not to enter into sentiment - the business of the novelist; nor to attempt vivid delineations of scenery - appropriate to the artist and the poet not to describe the events of the age, political or social, through which I have passed - the special work of the historian; nor even to. 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.