Excerpt from Fernando When Gracechurch appeared, some of. Its best reviewers picked out for special praise the parts which were most autobiographical, and, like Oliver Twist, asked for more: and that, particularly, in reference to the passages in Gracechurch most indicative of the foregone conclusion of Johnnie's conversion. Hence Fernando. As for the beginning, SO for the end of the book, some apology may seem necessary: it has no end. But to the writer it appears that it could have none. It is only a Preface - a preface to a book never to be written. That you may like it, I hope; if only because it may help to bring back far-away days over which lies that light that can never come again, under which lay the um discovered country oi our lives. Whether strangers will like it I cannot tell - in writing one never thinks of that. 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.