Excerpt from Phantom Club Papers If we may accept at face value the cordial welcome extended by our friends to the volumes of Phantom Club Papers heretofore published, we may be pardoned for assuming that the present volume will be not less kindly received. It is our painful duty to note that since the issue of our last volume we have been called to mourn the loss of four of our members - Irving M. Bean, Ogden H. Pethers, Joseph V. Quarles and James A. Bryden. Obituary tributes to these brethren will be found in the last pages of the volume, but words wholly fail to measure the sorrow caused by loss of such companionship. 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.