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Excerpt from Hauntings: Fantastic Stories WE were talking last evening - as the blue moon mist poured in through the old-fashioned grated window, and mingled With our yellow lamplight at table - we were talking of a certain castle whose heir is initiated (as folk tell) on his twenty-first birthday to the knowledge of a secret so terrible as to overshadow his subsequent life. It struck us, discussing idly the various mysteries and terrors that...

Excerpt from Gospels of Anarchy: And Other Contemporary Studies The intellectual rebellion and lawlessness of our contemporaries have been summed up by Mr. Henry Brewster, in a book too subtle and too cosmopolitan ever to receive adequate appreciation. 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...

Excerpt from Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh Coast in the Eighteenth Century 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...

Excerpt from Vital Lies, Vol. 1: Studies of Some, Varieties of Recent, Obscurantism Science is for ever invalidating some part of its statements, because it is for ever perfecting their whole, and reason, as it develops, takes its own self as subject for its criticism, asking, with Berkeley, Hume and Kant, and now with the Pragmatism of Peirce: What can we know? or rather, How do we know? Encouraged by, and taking advantage of this, the minds...

Excerpt from Miss. Brown Gosselin had come forward, his opera-hat in his hand, and begun to recite. It was a very delightful performance, and Anne eu joyed it greatly. Besides, it was a great re lief to find that this entertainment was a performance, and not as she had dreaded, a series of introductions and conversations with celebrities. There was a dead silence during Gosselin's recitation, except near the door, where people kept pressing i...

Excerpt from Juvenilia, Vol. 2: Being a Second Series of Essays on Sundry Æesthetical Questions In the month of August seventeen hundred and seventy, Baldassare Galuppi, surnamed Il Buranello, chapelmaster of St. Marks, director of the music school of the Incurabili, with thirty odd years of glory around him, ushered the enthusiastic Dr. Burney into his little study, and, pointing to the desk and spinette, said modestly, "This is where I dirt...

Excerpt from Euphorion, Vol. 1: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediæval in the Renaissance Faustus is therefore a parable of the impotent yearnings of the Middle Ages - its passionate aspiration its conscience-stricken desire, its fettered curiosity amid the cramping limits of imperfect knowledge and irrational dogmatism. The indestructible beauty of Greek art, whereof Helen was an emblem, became, through the discovery of classic poetry...

Excerpt from Belcaro: Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions Magazines, and of the Contemporary Review, for kind per mission to republish such of these studies as have previously. 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 rec...

Excerpt from Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life My dear Madame Blanc, The first copy of this little book was, of course, to have been for Gabrielle Delzant. I am fulfilling her wish, I think, in giving it, instead, to you, who were her oldest friend, as I, alas! had time to be only her latest. She had read nearly all these essays, and, during those weeks of her illness which I spent last autumn in Gascony, she had made me rewrit...

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Excerpt from The Beautiful But I have been obliged to speak in terms intelligible to the lay reader, and I am fully aware that these terms correspond only very approximately to what is, or at present passes as, psychological fact. I would therefore beg the psychologist (to whom I offer this little volume as a possible slight addition even to his stock of facts and hypotheses) to under stand that in speaking, for instance, of Empathy as involv...

Excerpt from Miss. Brown, Vol. 3 of 3 Do you think Circe's pigs were jealous of each other asked Mrs Spencer, when this peculiarity was pointed out to her by Chough. Reduce people to a certain level, and they will be satisfied with equality. 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. Forgotte...

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Excerpt from Ariadne in Mantua: A Romance in Five ActsLike almost everything else written by Vernon Lee there is to be found that insistent little touch which is her sign manual when dealing with Italy or its makers of forgotten melodies. In other words. The music of her rhythmic prose is summed up in one poignant vocable Porlom.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgo...