Excerpt from Scribner's Monthly, Vol. 8: An Illustrated Magazine for the People; May, 1874 October, 1874 Here a scholar, looking Solemn, Till the girl in azure slip, Blunders up a crooked column, Catches breath and spells the word, Pisa's own Italic tower, Flits up the Class like any bird, Done in slate in half an hour, Cheeks in bloom with honest blood. 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.