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You must swallow one monstrous magical absurdity at the beginning, and the rest will go down glibly that is, amusing. Instructive and entertaining: Burne's Mission to Lahore and Bokhara. Instructive, interesting, and entertaining: Roget on Physiology, with reference to Theology one of the Bridgewater Treatises, full of facts the most curious, arranged in the most beautifully luminous manner.
Perhaps a couple of blows with a mattock were sufficient, while his coadjutors were busy in the pit; perhaps it required a dozen who shall tell?" The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, Edgar Allan Poe. The Purloined Letter, Edgar Allan Poe. The Sign of the Four, A. Conan Doyle. A Scandal in Bohemia, A. Conan Doyle.
A friend of mine, who could write a thousand interesting and popular words about an event, or even about nothing in particular, while I was still wondering what I ought to do with it, once exclaimed in indignation and contempt when I put in a plea for Roget and his Thesaurus. He declared that a writer who used such a reference-book ought to be deprived of his paper and ink.
If we may exclude the 'Marie Roget' narrative in which Poe was working over an actual case of murder, we find him only three times undertaking the "tale of ratiocination," to use his own term; and in all three stories he was singularly happy in the problem he invented for solution. For each of the three he found a fit theme, wholly different from that employed in either of the others.
Wilfrid, and three native seamen. In the cabin Mrs. Lacy sat with ashen-hued face beside Miss Weidermann, their hands clasped together, and listening to the wild clamour of the wind and sea. Presently the two De Boos girls, Lacy, Father Roget, and Mina, came below to rest awhile, the water streaming from their sodden garments.
However," and Pendleton glanced humorously at his friend, "I don't suppose its beauty is what attracts you to-day. It is because certain pages are spread with the records of crime. I notice that this volume holds both 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and the 'Mystery of Marie Roget." "Right," smiled Ashton-Kirk. "I admit I was browsing among the details of those two masterpieces when you came in.
I told him that I could scarcely account for it on the ground of mere coincidence, and I called his attention to that part of "The Mystery of Marie Roget," where Poe figures out the mathematical likelihood of a certain combination of peculiarities of clothing being found to obtain in the case of two young women who were unknown to each other.
Freed from all that was positively disproved, this mass of information stood thus: Marie Rogêt left the residence of her mother, in the Rue Pavée St. Andrée, about nine o'clock in the morning of Sunday June the twenty-second, 18 . In going out, she gave notice to a Monsieur Jacques St.
The men looked at him expectantly; he put one hand on the table, and then slowly raised his face. "I think, gentlemen, that ... that Father Roget is the older man." He spoke haltingly, and a flush dyed his smooth, clean-shaven face from brow to chin. "Will you not ask him?" Then his eyes dropped again.
But many years prior even to the foregoing utterance of Faraday, a similar argument had been employed. I quote here with equal pleasure and admiration the following passage written by Dr. Roget so far back as 1829.
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