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THE ROMANCE OF

DISAPPEARANCE.

their loss. Superstition connects the consequence too, dull, too- harmless, name of a saint with trial losses. or too respectible to become the hero He is supposed to be always ready to of any imaginary crime or good deed help in the recovery of even the most if only he will disappear, Taa trifling. possession His help is in moment he is a centre of romance. Romance clings to the thought of voked about things so small that If he came back incognito at the end disappearance. Atlantis and the Land nothing but their disappearance could of the proverbial "nine days," which of Lyonesse arouse in our minds & invest them with sufficient romantic means of course a much longer time sense of wonder not untouched with interest to make them worthy the at- than a week and a half, he would tention of a saint. We have all heard not recognize the highly coloured emotion. Did Plato really get the of offerings successfully made to St. portrait which would be shown him legend of Atlantis from an Egyptian Anthony, and have sometimes heard fol himself. What did he ever do, he source? Do the sea levels of the of them from persons who never in- |-might wonder, to be thought so bad ocean lend colour to the theory of a voke the assistance of any other saint, por-so good, so strange or so silly?

Have submerged continent?

the The present writer knows of a Quaker There is no reputation which could migratory birds preserved.a tradition? lady who admitted that belief in the stand an unaccountable departure. efficacy of a small offering made to Sách a vague heading as Disappear If all these questions could be answer the benevolent saint was her one and ance of a Lady" obviously attracts red once for all and décisively in the only superstition." Even her Protest- many readers or we should not see

ON negative, there is hardly a thoughtful antism was not proof against the it so often in the public Press.

Romance of Disappearance. The course if it can be måde a little more man who would not give a little sign woman who searched diligently with definite, and the disappeared person's of disappointment. There is not too

a lighted candle all over the house 'for" birth-place, daily work of social con- much material for dreaming left now

be particularized, the that we have discovered the whole, one piece of giver had probably bought dition can world and disposed of most of its imaginery-godds with it up to five romantic instinct of the mukitude is even more certain to be awakened. myths. The public has always valued times its value. before, she found it. day-dreams. What price a population There are no books, so interesting The notion that some one has not been. bitten, we are told by Socialism) how as a book we once lost. The buried. though every evidence is there might he willing to give, for visions of present writer remembers & senti- to prove that he or she has died, is individual wealth has lately become mental American novel which disapa recurrent source of squalid romance. a practical question. But geographic peared from between his fingers--so We do not need a very long memory. al dreams are things of the pest. No to speak-in his seventeenth year. to recall several instances of such sup-

to be found. For more than a decade he seldom posed disappearances. hew country' remains

turned over the books upon a stall bur The Romance of Disappearance. No perfectly happy because perfectly the thought of its possible re-capture throws. we think, some light; though governed State lies beneath the great crossed his mind. The lost books perhaps it is but an oblique one, upon water-floods. The great benevolent autocrat with a look as if he pitied of literature stir the imagination of the value set upon ugly and worthless men" is a creature of the imagina- every scholar. Think of the pleasant rarities; also it explains in some de- He does not exist and has dreams which whole families owe to gree the fascination exercised by the never existed. However we may search lost legacies. They grow these for effigies of animals-who have disap- tunes which should have been peared from the face of the earth. Another of the romantic disappears," which cannot be squandered. It is natural that they should be deep- ances of the world was the disappear- cannot vulgarize, er induce idleness, ly interesting to zoologists, but why or foster vice, till the thought of them they should prove, as they always ance of the "ten tribes." There are, one hears, still a few practical has something like the effect of other seem rg do. more interesting to the and reasonable men so fascinated by proud traditions and is more prized general public than any other exhibit than gold. A title which has disapat the South Kensington Museum we peared is an education in romance for have always wondered. every little eldest son. Such thoughts with mummies, they have a supreme are spiritual amulets As Jolish and hold upon the fancy of the young Lon- doner. Perhaps the inexplicable

tion.

across the seas or the centuries.

as deár.

Together

the story of their supposed wander ings that they are able to credit the baseless notion that the British nation in its own proper person represents this submerged offshoot of the Chosent

All “* vanishing tricks are popular comicality of the antediluvians may. People. Where are they? Where may they not be? Those two ques with simple peoplesEtery child is have something to say to their charm, tions. stand for these believers in place amused to see a pentry disappear." something which might enable them of proof. They are enchanted and it has, he knows, been dexterously to retain it even if they once more cast into a condition of worldly pride covered or snatched away by the came to life, and had to be confined and unworldly confidence by the as-grown-up person who is amusing him, in the Zoo:

"Are there any lost arts? The surance, that they too have Abraham just as well as the Anglo-Indian knows

that the native display of vanishing philosopher's stone, like Atlantis, is for their Father Relate them to ADT boys climbing ropes is a matter of a name to conjure with. It is not ham's resi and undoubted offspring, the people whom no power could hide, optical illusion. No trick. However likely that the alchemists had any who have never been lost since has had such an effect as that one secret whatever which we have not The Black Art has Pharaoh strove in vain to smother upon the mind of the spectator. We long found out.

should think there is no returned disappeared, but it is surrounded by them under the awful cloak of slavery, and they will be anything but pleased. Anglo-Indian living who has not been a romance so profound and so seduc How much do stories of submerged asked if he has seen it. It is remark-tive that not every one would dare able that more, play is not made at even now to make, a study of im villages and churches enhance the sad romance of a hot shore? The modern seances with the Romance of former pretensions lest he should. lose story of ringing belle in the lost Disappearance. if a single member his reason among its spells. Chemis steeple is as old as the Inilis,, and as impossible as their breappearance the new belfry but we cannot r

it as a mere invention, we cannot but

isten if iste at night we should ind ourselves within traditional"

of the sound.

The Title things we

up in value

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the assembly could for a single try stands to alchemy as America

moment be lost to-view, we believe stands to Atlantis Romance has very ntores impression: would be made upon little to to with the actual; the actual, the audience than is made by any is always passing and romance always number of materializations. A

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