Hieroglyphic Tales

Horace Walpole

[Picture: Decorative graphic] CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED _LONDON_, _PARIS_, _NEW YORK & MELBOURNE_ 1901 INTRODUCTION...

Horace Walpole

[Transcriber's Note: Archaic spellings in the original text have been retained in this version.] HIEROGLYPHIC TALES.

Horace Walpole

WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME I London T. FISHER UNWIN PATERNOSTER SQUARE NEW YORK: G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS MDCCCXC CONTENTS.

Horace Walpole

[Illustration: COUNT OF NARBONNE THEODORE--SHE HASTENED TO THE CAVE AND VANISHED FROM MY SIGHT ACT I SCENE I PAINTED BY COOK PUBLISH'D BY LONGMAN & CO.

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.