The Argosy (Volume 66) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1898. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... divulged their neglected little record. I never again saw Mr. Z. I cannot recall his features and should not recognise a portrait of his if I saw it. I do not suppose Mr. X. and Mr. Z. ever met again. Their life lines certainly lay widely parted until the latter's ended in death. Were the memories of Mr. X. and myself awakened simultaneously, or was there what may be called "telepathic" communication? What awakened them? Did they respond to anything in what some people would call the "aura " of Mr. Z.? If this be so, how is it that it does not happen more often, and to some purpose? Or is it possible that such an awakened and definite memory is, after all, but as a bead dropped from the chain of impressions, generally too rapid to be seized and defined, but by the totality of which we are " drawn" to one person and "repelled " from another? Who can say? Isabella Fyvie Mayo. AN INVOCATION. A Harp Eolian Is on my window-sill, A box of pulsing melodies, A wood-and-wire thrill. Its songs are not its own-- There is no music there; But it can phrase in tender tone The symphonies of air. So many poets dead Is all their power past? Think of the songs that might have been Had not death come too fast Why is my hand less skilled Than wood and wire be? Cannot one floating song be willed .To breathe its tune to me? Dear bygone poets, then, Here's paper spread and white; I dip for you a silver pen-- Come, guide my hand and write A. M. EFFIE'S MARRIAGE. '"PHERE was a commotion in the Marine Parade, Eastville. Some -*- one had fainted, they said--a girl. An invalid? Oh, no; that pretty creature with the large sad eyes. There for change, perhaps? Ye--s; or perhaps to take her away from a certain handsome detrimental. Ah Laurence Leicester; and he suddenly appeared at Eastvil...