AUTHOR OF “MYSTERIOUS LEGENDS OF EDINBURGH,” “CURIOUS STORIED TRADITIONS OF SCOTTISH LIFE,” ETC. The stories in this volume owe their publication to the favour extended to my Book of Legends. If I had any apology to make it could only--independently of what is due for demerits which the cultivators of “the gay science” will not fail to notice--consist in an answer to the charge that books of this kind feed a too natural appetite for images and stimulants which tends to voracity, and which again tends to that attenuation of the mental constitution deserving of the name of _marasmus_. I may be saved the necessity of such an apology by reminding the reader that, although I plead guilty to th…
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