Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reveille, 1927, Vol. 26: The Annual of the University of Maryland A desire to instill in this book the simple dignity, the preciseness, and the beauty to be found in the old Grecian sculpture, caused the editor to select this theme as a modest, and yet inspiring background upon which to base the art work of the book. Each title page has for its introduction the drawing of a figure, some being in a re stored state and others being exact replicas of the figures unearthed from the ruins of old Greece; each figure, so used, being appropriate, according to Grecian mythology, to the subject in. 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.