Excerpt from The Lady of the Crossing It is a whimsical plea for the open mind. Formula for books may make the writing of a certain kind of book easier, may make reviewing of a certain kind easier, and the life of the harassed assistant librarian easier; but they won't do for me and, I trust, for you. One should go everywhere with an open mind, meet everybody with an open mind. The point is that one never knows. One day we may even read of a novel that no thinking man can ignore this work, or that here we have a reading of 'life, and on taking the volume up find that, after all, despite such phrases, it is not a special Lancet article gone astray. 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.