Eutychius, dipping his brush into crimson, wrote these words on the scroll upon the icon, under the Winged Precursor:—
"Behold I will send my messenger before my face, and he shall prepare my way before me."
THE END
'THOU ART THYSELF THY GOD, THYSELF THY NEIGHBOUR:
O BE AS WELL THINE OWN CREATOR TOO;
BE THE ABYSS ABOVE, THE DEPTH BELOW;
AT ONCE THINE OWN END, AND THINE OWN BEGINNING.'
| THE DEATH OF THE GODS | |
| By DMITRI MÉREJKOWSKI Author of "The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci," etc. | |
Authorized English version by Herbert Trench. 12o. $1.50. "A fine piece of work. Out of the perplexed chapters ofJulian's career, Mérejkowski has constructed something whichmight be called a drama, full of episodes, lurid, intense, passionate... with a power to enlist and hold the attentionof the reader. The Russian writer is evidently a close andunwearied student."—London Daily Telegraph. "Should meet with a good hearing in England andAmerica.... The subject—the career of Julian theApostate—is certainly most fascinating."—The Athenæum. "Here, in the enthusiasm of reading, we are ready to admitanother to the select circle of great historical novels, andthey are few.... Julian, as the intellectual and activemeeting point of the old world and the new, is the most remarkablefigure of his epoch."—Daily Chronicle. "With the ardor as of Flaubert in 'Salammbo,' and withperhaps more skill than Sienkiewicz in 'Quo Vadis,' he hassucceeded in recreating the wonderful rich scenes and charactersof the period."—The Observer. | |
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