The Singer (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Singer<br><br>Remark<br><br>On the advice of a friend whose opinion I value very highly, I have abandoned my original intention of giving this collection the title of<br><br>The Safety-Valve<br><br>Perhaps, as he hinted, this does have a mechanical tang about it, and suggests rather an escape of super-heated steam (he was much too polite to say 'gas,') than the gentle effluence of emotion, which I thought it conjured up in a decidedly poetical manner, - quite in our best modern vein. He proposed the caption<br><br>Songs Of Praise,<br><br>which my natural modesty forbids me to adopt. Praise, from some lips, is presumptuous. So also is blame. Therefore, I choose the temperate middle course, and neither praise nor blame, but relate - for the sake of the story, only. - J. T.<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.