Excerpt from The Deck of the Crescent City: A Picture of American Life The larger part of this volume was printed nearly a year ago, but was thrown aside from dissatisfaction, and with the intention to recon struct the whole from the beginning. The book has been recently resumed and finished, accord ing to the first plan, with as deep a consciousness as ever of its defects of style, but with no essential distrust of its general sentiment. The specula tions upon the purposes of Young America will seem to follow the public cry, but they were in. 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.