Excerpt from Songs in Minority There is much in these verses that the Author does not approve of in these later days; but it must be borne in mind that they were, with a few exceptions, the work of a mere boy'in his eighteenth and nineteenth years, and they should be given to the world as they were written, and not in the corrected and improved state in which be, grown to middle age, would have them to-day. They should be judged in conjunction with the early period of life in which they were written. 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.