The Enchanted Woods and Other Essays on the Genius of Places (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Enchanted Woods: And Other Essays on the Genius of Places Take this new ragbag of impressions with you next time, my dear. And when the landscape of chimneys and desecrated rivers and inhuman suburbs is making even your spirits flag a little, pull out some of the con tents at random. For the only justification of my idle wanderings is if their sunshine and romance may amuse, for a minute, people more useful, though not more willing, than myself. 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.