Excerpt from Recent Art and Society: As Described in the Autobiography and Memoirs of Henry Fothergill Chorley Were drawn from a recently published English work, entitled, Autobiography, Memoir, and Letters of Henry Fothergill Chorley, compiled by Henry G. Hewlett. That work extends through two thick and goodly-sized volumes; and a large amount of space is assigned to purely personal details and experiences which could hardly prove interesting to American readers, many of whom probably have scarcely even heard Chor-ley's name. The chief difference between the present work, and Mr. Hewlett's is, that these details have been for the most part omitted, while the whole of the Autobiography, nearly all the Letters, and the greater portion of the extracts from (chorley's Journals have been retained. The material thus chosen has also been rearranged in such a way as to group together those portions between which there seemed. 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.