Book excerpt: Excerpt from General Persifor Frazer: A Memoir Compiled Principally From His Own Papers by His Great-Grandson The head of this profile (see frontispiece) is not as satisfactory as a very ordinary portrait or crayon sketch would have been, but I am thank ful to have even this. The present collection of papers, relevant and irrelevant, makes no pre tence to consideration as a biography. It was undertaken from a sense of duty to the subject, to preserve the records of the gradually disintegrating papers so that some one in the future, by their aid, might write a biography of General Frazer which would be worthy of him. 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.