Excerpt from The New York Review, Vol. 8 When as yet a mere boy he was sent, with his younger brother, to a day-school, where the scholars were principally the sons of all the barbers, bakers and butchers of the neighborhood, and where the utmost that the master pro fessed to teach, was reading, writing, arithmetic, French and Latin; the last being rather inserted in the bill of fare by wafilof ornament. 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.