Excerpt from Brushland Thoughts and talk take a turn; from today to a long-ago yesterday. See says my publisher, pick ing up one of the knotty sticks and poking with it among the coals, a little imagination, a wood fire and something to punch it with, and 10, is reproduced upon the hearth a picture that hangs above it. At a cost only, I suggest, of two charred sticks Theocritus peering out from Syracuse into Philadelphia through a piece of charcoal. 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.