Excerpt from The Literary Year Book, 1897 The Obituary Notices have been transferred to Part II., and are placed alphabetically after the Nobel Prizes. This allows of notices ben inserted up to a later date than was possible before. Part I. Is therefore now wholly given up to Authors and Authors' Assistants. 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.