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TALES OF FANTASY AND FACT
By
BRANDER MATTHEWS
NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1896
BOOKS BY BRANDER MATTHEWS.
THE THEATRES OF PARIS.
FRENCH DRAMATISTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY.
THE LAST MEETING, a Story.
A SECRET OF THE SEA, and Other Stories.
PEN AND INK: Essays on Subjects of More or Less Importance.
A FAMILY TREE, and Other Stories.
WITH MY FRIENDS: Tales Told in Partnership.
A TALE OF TWENTY-FIVE HOURS.
TOM PAULDING, a Story for Boys.
IN THE VESTIBULE LIMITED, a Story.
AMERICANISMS AND BRITICISMS, with Other Essays on Other Isms.
THE STORY OF A STORY, and Other Stories.
THE DECISION OF THE COURT, a Comedy.
STUDIES OF THE STAGE.
THIS PICTURE AND THAT, a Comedy.
VIGNETTES OF MANHATTAN.
THE ROYAL MARINE, an Idyl of Narragansett.
BOOK-BINDINGS, Old and New; Notes of a Book-Lover.
HIS FATHER'S SON, a Novel of New York.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.
TALES OF FANTASY AND FACT.
ASPECTS OF FICTION, and Other Ventures in Criticism. (In Press.)
Copyright, 1896, byHarper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
TO
THE MEMORY OF MY FRIEND
H. C. BUNNER
CONTENTS
| Page | |
| A Primer of Imaginary Geography | 3 |
| The Kinetoscope of Time | 27 |
| The Dream-Gown of the Japanese Ambassador | 57 |
| The Rival Ghosts | 93 |
| Sixteen Years Without a Birthday | 131 |
| The Twinkling of an Eye | 143 |
| A Confidential Postscript | 207 |
A PRIMER OF IMAGINARY GEOGRAPHY
"Ship ahoy!"
There was an answer from our bark—for such it seemed to me by this time—but I could not make out the words.
"Where do you hail from?" was t