Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835-1900, Vol. 1 of 2: 1835-1862 Thi circumstances of the composition of this Autobiography of the late Henry Villard are set forth in his own words on page 373 of Volume II. The events of his youth in his native land before coming to the United States he chose to describe in his mother tongue. This portion of his memoirs his family edited and pub lished for private distribution two years after his death, under the title, Heinrich hilgard-villard jugend-erinnerungen, 1835 1853 (new York, A brief abstract of this charming and highly interesting narrative constitutes the Introduction of the present volumes. 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.