Transcriber’s Note:

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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.