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Excerpt from Horace Walpole's World: A Sketch of Whig Society Under George III The writer of the following pages can only ask forbearance from the familiars of Horry for her inadequate effort to interpret him and his world in brief. She would like also to express a grateful recognition of Mrs. Paget Toynbee's magnificent edition of Horace Walpole's Letters. 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.