Excerpt from The Eccentric Mirror, Vol. 1: Reflecting a Faithful and Interesting Delineation of Male and Female Characters, Ancient and Modern Owing to;tl1'e fluctuationsto which all those manufactures that administer to stile duxuries of the community are liable from the captions of fashion, the wares connected with the pro fession which had been chosen fo1 young Lam bert, ceased to be. In request Buckles Were all at once proscribed, and a total revhlution t'ook place at the same period in the public taste with respect to buttons. The consequence was, that a numerous class of artisans were thrown 'out of employment, and obliged to seek a subsistence in a different Joccupation. Among these was Lambert, who had then servedonlyifour years of his app1enticeship. 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.