Author: A. V. Kirwan

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9780267891665

Excerpt from Host and Guest: A Book About Dinners, Dinner-Giving, Wines and Desserts It is not for the author to say in how far he has succeeded. That he leaves to the judgment, and they are a great majority, 'of those who criticise in a fair and candid spirit. All, however, who affect to criticise are not candid; but it may be said of a critic who deliberately misrepresents a work, that he is unworthy of his vocation, and as heinously criminal as the man who in social or commercial life gives a false character of a servant, or a false warranty of goods or merchandise. 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.