Excerpt from The Young Duke, Vol. 2 of 3: A Moral Tale, Though Gay J. G. Strutt, a name, I regret to say, I never before heard, nor, in all probability, did any one else. A somewhat plaintive preface seems to anticipate that the Prefacer was working to pack up my books. Yet these versions are works which probably'have demanded many an hour of nightly meditation - perhaps have yielded to their creator some moments of poetic rapture. Such are the calamities of Authors! Very gratified should I be, if this notice, in my transitory page, should attract the public attention to the far more important labours of this ingenious man, who has displayed great taste, and great talent, in a department of lite rature at the present day too much neglected, and from which neglect, in my public mind has suffered. 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.