Excerpt from Coningsby Bearing In mind the special interest always attach ing to the youthful expression of an ideal - one, too, which is avowedly dependant on the strength and inspiration of youth, I have determined to reprint the novels as they were originally issued. In later editions, now alone available, of Vivian Grey whole chapters and characters were omitted, and minor revisions confront us at every turn. Yet these changes were never acknowledged and have not, so far as I can ascertain, been remarked by his critics. Today we are more desirous of studying the ideas of the youth, than that youth's ideas corrected some twenty years later by the man. 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.