THE ENGLISH BOOKMARKS

The escape from the city of a man driven away bythe hipocresy and the farse of bourgeois society becomes an epic of brave but doubly defeated men: once bythe harshness of the natural world and twice by the perverse morality of the slavedrivrs of the Amazonic rubber plantations. At the same time intrepid and unwary are these men. Spurred by futile drams, they follow a path of mirages, the trailmarks of Death lying in the bush. They ignore the terrible, centripetal force that drags them in; they ignore that they are tracking a dark and terrifyling animal that lies hidden in the juggle.

Three days ago the person of whom I speak disappeared suddenly from home; and, until this morning, I received no hint of his situation. You will fancy my alarm when I tell you that he is engaged upon a work of private justice. Bound by an unhappy oath, too lightly sworn, he finds it necessary, without the help of law, to rid the earth of an insidious and bloody villain.

An amusing chronicle of the tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chase when his ancestral halls became the home of the American Minister to the Court of St. James.

An endless tunnel —full of shadows and waves of fear that works sometimes in mysterious, strange ways— is the human mind. That sound in the night... is it an open window stroked by the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his casket? You would hear it while you are reading... is it just a tale, or the feeling that you are upon the verge of an horror more than mortal ?

Proceedings of that first morning did little to advance the investigation. It was marked, however, at the outset by an incident which left the most sinister impression upon my mind. The approach to the spot at which the tragedy occurred is down a narrow, winding, country lane. While we made our way along it we heard the rattle of a carriage coming towards us and stood aside to let it pass. As it drove by us I caught a glimpse through the closed window of a horribly contorted, grinning face glaring out at us. Those staring eyes and gnashing teeth flashed past us like a dreadful vision.