Excerpt from Mrs. Farrell: A Novel The background Of Mrs. Farrell is the New Eng land farm boarding house, which was the only form of simple country sojourn before summer cottages were imagined, and it is interesting to compare it with the farm boarding in The Vacation of the Kelwyns, written so many years after and giving a much fuller study Of the country people. The farmhouse of this story, kept by the finer type Of New England farmers, must, I think, have been the sort Of summer place that my parents were al ways seeking, and the Kelwyns' experience a pic ture Of what they more Often found. In the latter book the country people are Of much poorer stuff than the Woodwards, but one feels in his handling Of them the greater tenderness and understanding that age teaches, and youth, no matter how sym pathetic, cannot compass. 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.