Finally, these forgotten volumes paint a moving picture of Eliot in old age, a great writer who was lucky enough to marry a woman happy to be his devoted handmaiden as much as his wife and muse.
After sifting through a hundred years' worth of powdery "success literature," however, from forgotten volumes like C. B. C. Amicus's mid-19th-century "Hints on Life" to the crude home-correspondence courses of Dale Carnegie to the best-selling bromides of Stephen Covey, Hustad, a Minneapolitan turned New Yorker, may be forgiven for adopting precisely the opposite attitude.
In his own time, Dr Peter Mark Roget was most renowned for a now forgotten volume, Animal and Vegetable Physiology Considered With Reference to Natural Theology (1834), one of several works commissioned by the Earl of Bridgewater to celebrate "the power, wisdom and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation".
Brock had schooled himself in forgotten kitchen volumes like "The Carolina Housewife," and revived strains of sesame and field peas that hadn't been cultivated there for centuries.
One such song, "House of Wonders" was recorded but was later released on Mutilation Mix (1997) and Forgotten Freshness Volumes 1 & 2 (1998).
The uncensored version of "Piggy Pie" was later released on Forgotten Freshness Volumes 1 & 2. After recording was finalized, the duo planned to go on a national tour with House of Krazees and Myzery as its opening acts.
Blackwell left Island Records shortly after the group released Forgotten Freshness Volumes 1 & 2, and the merger of PolyGram into Universal Music Group (which owned Interscope and Geffen) affected the way the label handled its next Joker's Card release.
Don't forget that volumes are expressed in cubic units - cubic centimeters, in this case.
If ever there were a source for fulfilling a bibliophile's wildest desires, short of actually having feet planted in the world's largest bookstore and hands reaching for volume after volume, Forgotten Books is it.
In the past decade, two pathbreaking volumes — "Forgotten Armies" and "Forgotten Wars," by the Cambridge historians Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper — have recounted how European empires were destroyed, and contemporary Asian nation-states forged, by Japanese invasions and occupations.
"Back in the Race", as his recovery plan is called, has four broad goals but one overwhelming message: forget about volume and market share, focus on profits and cashflow.
