Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Argonaut, Vol. 20: January 22, 1887
He who has a sense of humor will find some amusement in a compar ison of the Harper article on The Literary Movement in New York and the paper on Literary Log Rolling in the last number of Tire Forum. The key-note of the latter may be found in the author's deola ration that something must be done to darn the flood of panegyric with which commonplace works are floated into circulation. The New York journalist says: Mr. Dewitt Seligman's paper, Epoch. Will shortly appear. Mr. John Foord is to be political editor; Mr. G. E. Montgomery, dramatic editor; and Mr. Cummings, of To ronto. Managing editor. Epoch is to he a sort of Eastern prototype of the Argonaut. Fair, fearless. And brainy, if it is as good as its San Francisco contemporary, it ought to succeed. We hope it will. Mrs. Olyphant has written for Blackwood another story in her super natural series. It is entitled The Land of Darkness. And she gives therein a new ida of hell. The punishments. The sufferings} the situa tion, are new; mechanical modes of torture are for the most part sup planted by acute mental anguish; individualities are preserved, and the vices which had characterized humanity are found playing more fiercely and freely in the doomed spiritual nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.