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NOVELS, ROMANCES, AND POPULAR LEGENDS. Poetry and prose fiction form the general literature of a nation, and are distinguished from the literature of the study or from special literature, which consists chiefly of books for the use of distinct classes or parties.
From the books written by those ghosts we have at least ascertained that they knew nothing whatever of the world in which we live. Did they know anything about any other? Upon every point where contradiction is possible, the ghosts have been contradicted.
I remember now they do teach that with you. It is a great mistake one of the greatest ever wiseacre made! No man of the universe, only a man of the world could have said so!" "You a librarian, and talk such rubbish!" I cried. "Plainly, you did not read many of the books in your charge!" "Oh, yes! I went through all in your library at the time, and came out at the other side not much the wiser.
Levendale turned to the detective, glancing again at Ayscough's card. "All I can tell you, sergeant," he said, "is practically what I've told the public in my advertisement. Of course, I can supplement it a bit. The book is a very valuable one you see," he went on, with a careless wave of his hand towards his book-shelves. "I'm something of a collector of rare books.
For some days she went on with her books, but the more she read the more miserable she became, because there was nobody with whom she could interchange what she thought about them. She was alarmed at last to find that something very much like hatred to her husband was beginning to develop itself.
"Then listen to me," said Ned, bitterly. "Is it by playing music in fine parlours that good is to be done? Is it by drinking wine, by smoking, by laughing, by talking of pictures and books and music, by going to theatres, by living in clover while the world starves? Why do you not play that music in the back streets or to our fellows?" he asked, turning to Geisner again. "Are you afraid?
All these authors showed me how temporary, in the sum of things, is any popular theology; and, finally, the dawn of the Darwinian hypothesis came to reveal a whole new orb of thought absolutely fatal to the claims of various churches, sects, and sacred books to contain the only or the final word of God to man.
"Well, we were smart!" cried Ardan suddenly. "How so, friend Michael?" asked Barbican. "Why not have packed the Projectile with ever so many useful objects, books, instruments, tools, et cetera, and fling them out into space once we were fairly started! They would have all followed us safely! Nothing would have been lost! And now I think on it why not fling ourselves out through the window?
The case, if I may adapt a comparison of Mr. Russell's, was as if we possessed a catalogue of the library at Alexandria, all the books being lost for ever; it would be only in the catalogue that we could practically verify their existence or character, though doubtless, by some idle flight of imagination, we might continue to think of the books, as well as of those titles in the catalogue which alone could appear to us in experience.
Though by its escutcheon it assume a place among the amusing rather than the instructive class of books, why should not its nobility be recognized? The answer is found in the essential nature of art, in the almost eternal distinction between life and thought, between actual and ideal realities.
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