Excerpt from A Day With Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy So, he said, his English gaining piquancy from his slight lisp, you come from England - from clear England. I love your country greatly. It has fog, and it is dark, too, for the sun forgets to shine at times; but it is beautiful - like a picture, and when it smiles, what land is sweeter? 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.