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He inveigles the reader into believing the most extravagant incidents by having a reliable witness narrate them. Stockton never stoops to the burlesque, cynic, or vulgar phases of life to secure amusement. He is grotesque and droll in his manner, and above all always restrained. His literary life is full of sprites and gnomes that frolic before young children and once before mature people.
The garden was full of flower-fairies, invisible elves and sprites whose mission it was to guard the flowers, and who loved the moonlight more than they loved the day; dainty, diaphanous creatures who were wafted across the smooth lawns on summer breezes, and washed the thirsty petals and drooping leaves in the dew which the clear blue air of night diffuses so abundantly.
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. The man who dreams is but the locale of various phenomena of which he is the spectator in spite of himself; he is passive and impersonal; he is the plaything of unknown vibrations and invisible sprites.
Still one may admire the very spirited girl archers surmounting the two columns, even if they are apparently launching arrows at their sister sprites below, instead of into jets of water as was intended. The figures at the bases of the columns, while lacking the grace and the joyous verve of those above, still are very decorative. All are the work of Leo Lentelli. The Fountain of Earth.
All about them were strange people, Mermaids and Water Nymphs, Water Sprites and Mermen, fishes and dolphins, and even a whale, although he wasn't very large. If he had been, he wouldn't have been there, for the entrance to the cave was just wide enough for him to squeeze through. Well, no sooner did they see the big Sea Horse, than they all said at once,
Germain, through his attendant sprites, of course, received timely warning, and escaped to the Continent. In England, he was the inseparable friend of Prince Lobkowitz a circumstance that gave some color to his alleged connection with the Russians.
Of the too emphatic “Syrena” he says: “Her judgment just, her sentence is too strong; Because she’s right, she’s ever in the wrong.” Of the diplomatic “Julia:” “For her own breakfast she’ll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem.” Of “Lyce,” the old painted coquette: “In vain the cock has summoned sprites away; She walks at noon and blasts the bloom of day.”
"You'll have to get aunt Lucy to give me to you," said Fleda. "Mr. Carleton," said she, a few minutes after, "is that story in a book?" "What story ?" "About the lady and the little sprites that waited on her." "Yes, it is in a book; you shall see it, Elfie. Here we are!" And here it was proposed to stay till the next day, lest Fleda might not be able to bear so much travelling at first.
They waved their hands to me and sped like sprites along the gallery; and I waited, wondering what more the night would bring forth. In about ten minutes the relief came up; and M. de Tolendal, who was in charge, was so eager to get back to the masquerade that he made no inquiries, and got off as soon as possible, dismissing me at the same time.
Every village had its witches, sometimes of different sorts, and there was scarcely an old house but had its white lady or moaning old man with a long beard. There were ghosts in the fens which walked on stilts, while the sprites of the hill country rode on flashes of fire.
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