Excerpt from Worlds Displayed: For the Benefit of Young People, by a Familiar History of Some of Their Inhabitants P take this method of returning thanks to my friends, and to strangers on both sides of the Tzveed, for sending their candid remarks on the first edition 1 4 I have in consequence made several alterations on the second. 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.