Excerpt from Maga Excursion Papers I was lately bold eugh to visit Newport in winter. It does t require much heroism to go there in summer. If you can patiently endure an Italian climate, gorgeous sunsets, and the sweet stillness of the sea, you will find Newport tolerable in August. If you do t chafe at pleasant society, and the most various afforded by the country; if you can resign yourself to the sparkling rthern, and languid tropical manners; if you like to dance with belles fairer than Bayaderes, and to the most siren music; or if you prefer solitary rambling upon ocean cliffs, hearing the music far away over bare fields; if you are a fisher, or a poet, or a preux-chevalier, you will submit to Newport in summer. But when, in the most dogged of the dog-days, some friend, generously hospitable, cries Come in the winter, you smile incredulous assent. Is there any Newport in winter? Do roses blow in January, or is St. Valentine hored like May-day? 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 techlogy 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.