Excerpt from A Round of Birthdays: Entertainment for Children Our publication of a Christmas Book for the past two years has met with such cordial appreciation from our friends, and has opened up so many pleasant opportunities for new acquaintanceship, that we have again taken a departure from the beaten tracks of our legitimate busi ness. And masquerade once. More in holiday attire as publishers. 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.