Excerpt from Modern Daughters: Conversations With Various American Girls and One Man As for the pictorial obligato, {f it shall occasionally show a curious indifl'erence to the tune of the text, I trust that it may appear upon consideration that there are some very good reasons why this partnership should be as indefinite as it is. And since you, reader, will in so many instances find yourself looking at your counter feit presentment, I may, I hope, be allowed in this place to say this word of grateful acknowl edgment to all of those daughters of the States who have permitted my camera to save my pen the impossible task of describing the beauty of the American girl. 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.