Excerpt from Romance and Other Studies The numbers treating subjects not exclusively belonging to the Romance field will probably be chiefly devoted to some portion of the vast domain of Comparative Literature, as that is a field in which I am considerably interested. Among the monographs which will perhaps be included in this series are the following (already in part prepared) 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.

Excerpt from Romance and Reality: Essays and Studies I know there are people who like work, and I am bound to respect their taste but I do not in the least understand them. They do tease me out of thought, as doth Eternity; and I am silent before them as Keats was before a greater thing. There are many things we are forced to accept with our limited perceptions; we understand very little in Spite of our hurrying here and there, and of our vast knowledge. Doubtless work has rewards unknown to me: my powers of observation may be faulty, for most people seem to be working all their waking hours they do nothing only when they sleep, after wards they begin to work again. I must conclude that they get some pleasure out of it, or they would not work, for we all agree that ours is an age of freedom. It behoves me, therefore, to take the militant worker for granted. 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.

Excerpt from Love and Life, and Other Studies Life - No! We have come to court the welcome form of Death and we shall stay to feel his clinging embrace. Love. - Oh, inexorable partner and master! Why such fearful haste? Can we not wait? Can we not hold but for the time that a godly genius breathes his soul into his creations: a painter, his soul into a har mony of color; a poet, his soul into beauty of verse and of thought; a musician, his soul into a concord of tones? 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.

Excerpt from The Romance of the Milky Way: And Other Studies and Stories In outward appearance Hearn, the man, was in no way prepossessing. In the sharply lined picture of him drawn by one of his Japanese comrades in the Atlantic for October, 1905, he appears, slightly corpulent in later years, short in stature, hardly five feet high, of somewhat stooping gait. A little brown ish in complexion, and of rather hairy skin. A thin, sharp, aquiline nose, large protruding eyes, of which the left was blind and the right very near-sighted. 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.

Excerpt from Romance: Two Lectures Literature has commonly been allowed to give a name to the whole period, and it is often called the Age of the Romantic Revival. We do not name other notable periods of our literature in this fashion. The name itself. 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.

Excerpt from Studies in Romance Thomas, Vol. 5 The author has ventured to include under the title "Studies in Romance" a variety of compositions, all of which were the product of what was perhaps the most imaginative period of his life, so that they naturally belong together in his mind. The leading story, "Malbone," being the first of his few attempts in fiction, gave him something of the experience mentioned by Miss Alcott in her "Little Women;" namely, that the parts of a tale taken directly from real life are usually those dismissed as improbable by the reader. Thus the secret stairway in "Malbone" was called a farfetched and worn-out device, although the thing itself existed and still in part exists in the old house where the book was written in Newport; and was, in fact, the very thing which suggested the story. Having been originally constructed, probably, for smuggling purposes, it lent itself very suggestively to a tale. 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.

Excerpt from Studies by Members of the Department of Romance Languages With the bankruptcy, then, of the primitive-historic theory, after one hundred years of able effort to support it, in what way should the Chansons de geste be studied? They should be studied as we study any other literary genre, in themselves, for what they are and pretend to be, heroic or romantic poems, written from the 11th to the 14th centuries, reflecting the spirit of those times and a product of those times. They Should be read all together, compared with one another, and their relationships noted. No doubt anyone unfamiliar With the history of epic study will say at once: But surely this has already been done, since it has always been the A B C of literary study of a genre. Nevertheless it is exactly this which has not been done, or, to speak more accurately, where it has been done the results have been disregarded; and for reason. Since it was an article of faith that the present poems depended on some earlier form, every study has endeavored to formulate this something earlier and interpret accordingly the present poems. 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.