Excerpt from The Betrothed Now, whether from instinct or observation, writers ap pear for some years past to have generally understood we demands of the age; and throughout Europe, men of dis tinguished talents have employed themselves in answering them. It might be said that Germany, England, Switzer land, and Italy, have formed as it were a literary alliance, which will probably endure longer than their political alliance. As to France, her attention has for fifteen years been attracted to literature as well as to politics but she has thought it sufficient for her glory to translate fm'eign books, and for her prosperity to translate foreign consti tutions.' 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.