Excerpt from Harvard College Library: From the Estate of Mrs. Charles Robert Sanger of Cambridge Received February 19, 1936 ON a dark and chilly evening in the last month of the tiyear, a youn portrait-painter named Stanfor was sitting one in the room where he practised his art. An easel was be fore him, and on it was a painting, although so dim was the light shed by a solitary candle from an adjoining table, that it was difficult to distin guish the figures on the canvass. There was a fireplace in the apartment, but it no longer emitted a cheerful warmth, for the last spark upon the hearth-stone had expired, and the air was growing colder and colder. 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.