Arthur Carryl
A Novel (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Arthur Carryl: A Novel<br><br>You will not have forgotten, my - R, the request you lately made, that I would detail to you the conversation, which, a few weeks previously, I had had with our mutual friend, W, and of which he had related to you part. I have thought, that, besides ministering to your gratification and instruction, the scene if written out would form for my new volume of rhymes no unfitting preface. W - was, as perhaps you know, my agent with the publishers of the Vision, and overlooked that poem in its progress through the press. Hence, during its brief career he watched it with parental solicitude, and even aided with his pen, as you have seen in the Critique of the Vision, in making ridiculous its unprincipled defamers. In a word, he was my other self.<br><br>It was then a beautiful afternoon, of the month preceding this in which I write. W - had come to see me, and was seated with me in the little library, whose double window faces, as you are aware, the west. The casement was open; and the blinds, thrown half way back, shielded us from the slant rays of the summer sun, which was now slowly westering, and would ere long be lost behind the houses' tops. Between us on a table, where stood a bottle of his favorite claret, ice clearer than crystal, and some foreign fruits, was a vase filled to the brim with newly gathered roses. In the balcony, the plants had never looked more lovely.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.