Floating Fancies among the Weird and the Occult

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CLARA H. HOLMES.
F. TENNYSON NEELY,
PUBLISHER,
LONDON. NEW YORK.
Copyright, 1898,
CLARA H. HOLMES.
TO MY FRIEND,
WILLIAM MONTGOMERY.
FLOATING FANCIES.
Very many years ago, in an age when departures from the regular line of thought were accounted but vagaries of a diseased brain, when science was a thing of dread, and great knowledge deemed but sorcery, Nordhung Nordjansen was born, and grew to early manhood on the far northern coast of Norway.