Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of the Second Annual Free Loan Exhibition of Paintings of the University Settlement Society: At the Neighborhood Guild, Summer, 1893 The old Italian, seated with his back to a sunny wall, is dreaming of the old days when life to him was full of the perils and excitement of the deep. In the distance, the fishermen and their boats are just coming in from their day's work. 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.