Mosaic Gleanings A Souvenir For 1876 PDF Download

Excerpt from Mosaic Gleanings: A Souvenir for 1876 "As tiresome as a preface" is a saying so trite as to have passed into a proverb, yet how unkind a cut, thus to stigmatize what is so difficult to write, and what one is so often at one's wits' end to know how to achieve. Such, at this moment, is our own case. I had in contemplation writing a history of events in California; but to repeat what has so often been written would be futile. To our contributors we express our thanks for their valuable articles. We feel assured that our readers will be amply repaid by their perusal. Having during the late war offered my services, and been accepted, as nurse in the hospitals, and being familiar with so many incidents that are given by the inimitable writer of "The Life of the Soldier," I could not forbear inserting a few pages, as they recalled those never to be forgotten days during my sojourn among our brave soldiers. 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.