Download or read book Reveries of an Old Smoker written by Charles Edward Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reveries of an Old Smoker: Interspersed With Reminiscences of Travel and Adventure All that is most kindly and pleasing in the following pages, I proffer most heartily to my friends; and those portions which may not be acceptable to them, I bequeath most cheerfully to my critics. I trust both parts may be received - the former, as an earnest tribute of reciprocal affection; the latter, as an inoffensive and easy exercise whose manifest errors may offer them the congenial task of correcting. The volume as a whole, irrespective of its merits or demerits, but simply as a memoir of odd hours of thoughtful reverie, is dedicated to one who, regardless of its literary value, will prize it as the fragment of a life's history in which she has always evinced a loving interest; and if, on its perusal, she, too, would condemn much that may not meet approval, then will she grant me her indulgence, as of yore, on being reminded that she is the mother of the Author. 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.