Excerpt from Elton Hazlewood: A Memoir, by His Friend Henry Vane Centuries, and now they culminate, temporarily, in an episode - Hazlewood. Down from sidereal wastes, up from green depths of ocean, centripetally from wide forests areas, forces have come, through, perpetual modifications, until the supreme result for the time has been arrived at, and Hazlewood, small, red, plaintive, lies in his nurse's arms. What interest have we in this infant you ask. Has he lived? Is he a real person? Is he the writer Is he my idea of you, Reader Yes, he is all these, and being all, is of course none of them. Nevertheless, Hazlewood has been con ceived and born, and. Being born must live and thrive, he having the good fortune not to be one of the schemes for the amelioration of man's lot, which are often conceived, and even born, and yet do not live and thrive. 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.