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Excerpt from A Greek Reader: Consisting of New Selections and Notes, With References to the Principal Grammars Now in Use To those of my friends, who, from my own statements, expected an earlier issue, it is only just to myself to say, that I have most earnestly struggled to make good my promises. But in vain. To stereotype was a necessary condition of publication. A process always slow, it was in this case rendered more so by the immense and pressing business of the eminent house (metcalf 65 Co., Cambridge) to whom this work was intrusted, and by extraordinary domestic trials, which compelled me, meanwhile, more often than not, to do all my mental work while other men slept. As for mistakes, the tastes and principles of the author are utterly against them. Everywhere, and above all in books, they are inexcusable. But I am a deliberate offender. As the Reader was some years since out of print, I judged that the schools who use it would prefer an earlier issue slightly inaccurate, to waiting at the cost of perfectness. The errata, if any, will be found chiey in the figures used for reference. They could not be easily avoided, since the proofs were on white paper, and corrected in the country, ninety miles from press, and generally at midnight; conditions not very favorable to steady vision. 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.