Excerpt from The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine The present novel attracted very great attention at the time of its publication, and much praise was awarded to it by the leading critical journals of the period; while its authop was made the medium of various gifts of money towards the fund which was raised in England in aid of the peasantry's distress. Carleton expected great results from its popularity, in the direction of increased remuneration for his future works, and in the easier access to publishers, but he was over sanguine. In an unpublished letter, now lying before me, and dated from London three' years after the publication of the novel, he writes to his daughter. 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.