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Excerpt from A Last Ramble in the Classics
When Byways in fire Classics came out, a news paper devoted to racing Offered to review it. The publisher connected this proposal with the Circumstance that Cicero had just won the Derby, while I thought that Byways in the Classics had been taken to mean tales of shady practices con cerning the 'classic races, as the Derby and St. Leger. The incident has suggested to me that a few notes on sport in the poets may interest some readers. 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.
