Identifier: booksbookmen00lang (find matches)
Title: Books and bookmen ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
Subjects: Bibliomania Literary forgeries and mystifications
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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story ofCrooglin Grange, his education in the practiceand theory of vampires will be complete, and hewill be a very proper and well-qualified inmateof Earlswood Asylum. The most awful Japanesevampire, caught red-handed in the act, a hideous,bestial incarnation of ghoulishness, we havecarefully refrained from reproducing. Scarcely more agreeable is the bogie, or witch,blowing from her mouth a malevolent exhala-tion, an embodiment of malignant and maleficentsorcery. The vapour which flies and curls fromthe mouth constitutes a sending, in thetechnical language of Icelandic wizards, and iscapable (in Iceland, at all events) of assumingthe form of some detestable supernatural animal,to destroy the life of a hated rival. In the caseof our last example it is very hard indeed tomake head or tail of the spectre represented.Chinks and crannies are his domain ; throughthese he drops upon you. He is a merry butnot an attractive or genial ghost. Where thereare such visions about it may be admitted
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A CHINK AND CREVICa BOGIE. 68 BOOKS AND BOOKMEN. that children, apt to believe in all such fancies,have a youth of variegated and intense misery,recurring with special vigour at bed-time. Butwe look again at our first picture, and hope andtrust that Japanese boys and girls are as happyas these jolly little creatures appear. ( 69 ) GHOSTS IN THE LIBRARY. Suppose, when now the house is dumb,When lights are out, and ashes fall— Suppose their ancient owners comeTo claim our spoils of shop and stall,Ah me ! within the narrow hall How strange a mob would meet and go,What famous folk would haunt them all,Octavo, quarto, folio! The great Napoleon lays his hand Upon this eagle-headed N,That marks for his a pamphlet banned By all but scandal-loying men,—A libel from some nameless d^ Of Frankfort,—Ar7iaud a la Sphere,Wherein one spilt, with venal pen. Lies oer the loves of Moliere.^ Histoire des Intrigues Amoureuses de Mclih-e, et de celles demfemtne. (A la Sphere.) A Francfort, chez Frede

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