FACTS AND FANCIES FOR THE CURIOUS FROM THE HARVEST-FIELDS OF LITERATURE
Reading edition
A MELANGE OF EXCERPTA
COLLATED BY
CHARLES C. BOMBAUGH, A.M., M.D.
“Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body”
Burke
“So full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high-fantastical”
Twelfth Night

PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
Copyright, 1905
By J. B. Lippincott Company
Published October, 1905
Electrotyped and Printed by
J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
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