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Title: The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 Vallée, Léon, 1850-1919 Brandl, Alois, 1855-1940 Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: London : The Standard
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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literature. He wasa close friend of Dickens, and became associated with him in the editing ofHousehold Words. He died in London, September 23, 1889. Among his novelsmaybe mentioned: Antonina (1850), The Dead Secret, The Womanin White (his chief work), No Name, Armadale, The Moonstone,The New Magdalen, I Say No, Legacy of Cain, Blind Love. Hisshort stories include The Frozen Deep, dramatized, and The DreamWoman.) Prologue : The Storming of Seringapatam (1799), (Extracted from a Family Paper.)I. I ADDRESS these lines — written in India — to my relativesin England. My object is to explain the motive which has induced me torefuse the right hand of friendship to my cousin, John Hern-castle. The reserve which I have hitherto maintained in thismatter has been misinterpreted by members of my family whosegood opinion I cannot consent to forfeit. I request them tosuspend their decision until they have read my narrative. And By permission of Clialtr) & Windus. (Crown Svo., price 38. Gd.)
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WILKIE COLLINS From a photo by Alexander Bassano THE MOONSTONE. 6701 I declare, on my word of honor, that what I am now about towrite is, strictly and literally, the truth. The private difference between my cousin and me took itsrise in a great public event, in which we were both concerned —the storming of Seringapatam, under General Baird, on the 4thof May, 1799. In order that the circumstances may be clearly understood,I must revert for a moment to the period befo^e the assault,and to the stories current in our camp of the treasure in jewelsand gold stored up in the Palace of Seringapatam. II. One of the wildest of the stories related to a Yellow Dia-mond — a famous gem in the native annals of India. The earliest known traditions describe the stone as havingbeen set in the forehead of the four-handed Indian god whotypifies the Moon. Partly from its peculiar color, partly froma superstition which lepresented it as partaking of the natureof the deity whom it adorned, and growing a

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