Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
FACTS AND FANCIES
FOR THE CURIOUS
FROM THE
HARVEST-FIELDS OF LITERATURE
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.