Excerpt from Essays of Elia: Edited With Introduction and Notes Any editors of Lamb's Essays must necessarily be under considerable obligations to Canon Ainger for the excellent work which he has done in his complete edition of The Essays of Elia. The present editors desire to express their indebtedness to him for the great assistance which they have derived from his notes, with reference both to the persons mentioned in the Essays and to various obscure particulars connected with the life of Charles Lamb. To the information thus obtained they have added, as far as was possible, a full identification of the sources of the very numerous quotations, and explanations of the many allusions scattered throughout the Essays, in order to meet the requirements of English students. Finally, for the benefit of Indian students, words and phrases, such as would not be readily intelligible to any one who has not lived in England, have been explained in the notes. 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.