Friendship's Offering (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Friendship's Offering In one slight point we have in the present volume not adhered strictly to our usual practice. We have admitted three little pieces that had previously been in print. These are, the pleasant prose article entitled 'old Maids, ' and two scraps of verse, The Tornado, ' and a Sonnet by Alfred Tenny son;' all originally inserted in the Englishman's Magazine' for August, 1831, a clever periodical, which amidst the chance and change' of the times and 'the trade, ' was consigned, after the publica tion of a few numbers, to premature extinction. With these few remarks, Courteous Reader, and with a right hearty Christmas greeting, we bid thee farewell; indulging the hope, that amidst all the calamities of the times' and of 'the trade, ' we may live to greet thee in like fashion this time twelve months, and be welcomed with the same cordiality which we trust, on our present appear ance, to experience. 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.