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2. A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction
3. Mr. Henry James's Later Work
4. Will the Novel Disappear?
5. Mr. Henry James's Later Work
6. Ragged Lady, the -- Complete.
7. Their Silver Wedding Journey -- Complete.
8. Their Wedding Journey.
9. Minister's Charge.
10. CRITICISM AND FICTION.
11. Rise of Silas Lapham.
12. Lady of the Aroostook.
13. Kentons.
14. Traveler from Altruria: Romance.
15. Through the Eye of the Needle: A Romance.
16. THEIR SILVER WEDDING JOURNEY: Part I.
17. A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES: PART FIFTH.
18. A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES: PART SECOND.
19. A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES: PART THIRD.
20. X. HOMEWARD AND HOME.
21. VI. NIAGARA.
22. DOWN THE ST. LAWRENCE.
23. NIAGARA REVISITED, TWELVE YEARS AFTER THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY.
24. IX. QUEBEC.
25. IV. A DAY'S RAILROADING.
26. THE SENTIMENT OF MONTREAL.
27. III. THE NIGHT BOAT.
28. V. THE ENCHANTED CITY, AND BEYOND.
29. I. THE OUTSET.
30. II. MIDSUMMER-DAY'S DREAM.
31. Annie Kilburn: A Novel.
32. Albany Depot: A Farce.
33. Dr. Breen's Practice.
34. CHAPTER XXVI.
35. CHAPTER IX.
36. CHAPTER VIII.
37. Criticism & Fiction.
38. Foregone Conclusion.
39. Fennel & Rue.
40. Part I: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL.
41. Questionable Shapes ..FT..- The incident was of a dignity which the supernatural has by no means always had, and which has been more than ever lacking in it since the manifestations of professional spiritualism began to vulgarize it. Hewson appreciated this as soon as he realized that he had been confronted with an apparition. He had been very little agitated at the moment, and it was not till later, when the conflict between sense and reason concerning the fact itself arose, that he was aware of any perturbation. Even then, amidst the tumult of his whirling emotions he had a sort of central calm, in which he noted the particulars of the occurrence with distinctness and precision. He had always supposed that if anything of the sort happened to him he would be greatly frightened, but he had not been at all frightened, so far as he could make out. His hair had not risen, or his cheek felt a chill; his heart had not lost or gained a beat in its pulsation; and his prime conclusion was that if the Mysteries had chosen him an agent in approaching the material world they had not made a mistake. This becomes grotesque in being put into words, but the words do not misrepresent, except by their inevitable excess, the mind in which Hewson rose, and flung open his shutters to let in the dawn upon the scene of the apparition, which he now perceived must have been, as it were, self-lighted. The robins were yelling from the trees and the sparrows bickering under them; catbirds were calling from the thickets of syringa, and in the nearest woods a hermit-thrush was ringing its crystal bells. The clear day was penetrating the east with the subtle light which precedes the sun, and a summer sweetness rose cool from the garden below, gray with dew. ..FT..- In the solitude of the hour there was an intimation of privity to the event which had taken place, an implication of the unity of the natural and the supernatural, strangely different from that robust gayety of the plain day which lat
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43. A psychological counter-current in recent fiction
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