The mail brings manuscripts imprinted, and pamphlets Macal volumes to arrive by freight or express, without a word as to Thus it is not unusual for boxes of old chemical or phar. Unite to further the project, for the purpose is not personal Interested in the movement, and, considering it a worthy one, Iinperceived, beyond the reach of physics or of chemistrv', are notĪs ethereal mind-seeds which, although unseen, yet, in living brain,Įxposed to such an atmosphere as this, formulate embryotic Shape and live in this atmosphere, - who can say that pulsations Essences of dis-Įnthralled minds meet here and revel. TheseĪlcoves are trysting places for eleinental shades. Spirit, - together they form a phantom army that, invisible toĪh ! this antique library is not as is a church graveyard, onh-Ī cemetery for the dead it is also a mansion for the living.
Turn to the shelves about, before each book stands a guardian This man is not dead and his comrades live. Per-plate frontispiece the mind of the author rises from out the Mind as well as the body of its moldering occupant, and while Each volume adds to the oppression,Įach old tome casts the influence of its spirit over the beholder,įor have not these old books spirits? The earth-grave covers the Standing in a library of antiquated works, one senses the
Such men be careful in a few days the dead will face their Those who presume to criticise the intellectual productions of Superstitious sensation bids me be cautious and not offend. The title page is read with rever-Įnce, and the great tome is replaced wdth care, for an almost The yellowed volume in my hand, speak across the gulf of twoĬenturies, and bid me beware. Parchment, two, three, five hundred years old, regardless of itsĬontents, impresses one with an indescribable feeling akin to aweĪnd veneration, - as does the wheat from an Eg}'ptian tomb, even Reverence a vellum-bound or hog-skin print, or antique yellow PRESSWORK and BINDING BY CRANSTON & CURTS, ClNCINNAlTįamiliar personality wliich may often be treated with neglect orĮven contempt, but a volume a century old demands some Worn itself away, I have no plausible excuse, and shall seek none. My life has been given, and amid the problems of which it has nearly Of a science bound to the unresponsive crucible and retort, to which Venturing to think, superficially, it may be, outside the restricted lines That seemingly do not concern in the least men in my position, and for On the other, for giving place to ideas nearer to empiricism than to On the one hand, that it may seem should have been excluded, and Venable could not eradicate, I accept as whoUj' my own. That break all rules in composition, and that the care even of Prof. Structural imperfections as well as word selections and phrases
Ing in themselves a beautiful narrative without words, are due to theĪdmirable artistic conceptions and touch of Mr. The illustrations, excepting those mechanical and historical, mak. Work, I am indebted for many valuable suggestions, and I can not Venable, who reviewed the manuscript of this WHO PROMISED TO PRINT THE SAME, BUT FINALLY EVADED THE RESPONSIBILITY THE STRANGE HISTORY OF A MYSTERIOUS BEING
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