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Excerpt from Falkland, And, Zicci In the next place, the considerations which would naturally guide an author of established reputation in the selection of early compositions for subsequent te publication, are obviously inapplicable to the preparation of a posthumous standard edition of his collected works. Those who read the tale of Falkland in 1827 have long survived the age when character is influenced by the literature of sentiment. The readers to whom it is now presented are not Lord Lytton's contemporaries they are his posterity. To them his works have already become classical. It is only upon the minds of the young that the works of sentiment have any appreciable moral influence. But the sentiment of each age is peculiar to itself 3 and the purely moral influence of sentimental fiction seldom survives the age to which it was first addressed. The youngest and most impressionable reader of such works as the Nouvelle Helmse, ' Werther, ' The Robbers, ' Corinne, ' or Rene, ' is not now likely to be morally influenced, for good or ill, by the perusal of those masterpieces of genius. Had Byron attained the age at which great authors most realise the respon sibilities of fame and genius, he might possibly have regretted, and endeavoured to suppress, the publication of Don Juan but the possession of that immortal poem is an unmixed benefit to posterity, and the loss of it would have been an irreparable misfortune. 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.