Excerpt from Cosas De España, or Going to Madrid Via Barcelona When the learned curate of a certain village in the Spanish province of La Mancha, Master Nicholas, the barber, and Don Quixote's house keeper assembled together in the Don's library to purify it of the perilous stuff Which had turned the head of its owner, the holy man remarked concerning a book of Poems he Withheld from the flames that, it would have been still better, had there been less of it; and even went so far as to add the general observation that, never was a good boo/c a big one. 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.