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errors? Illustrations of the hardcopy intermingle with the text often, and
so their markings are "rudely" placed mid-sentence in this etext as well
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with another printing or edition as something *seems* missing but i
cannot say what.... The poetry may have errors, particularly end of line
punctuation.
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PHANTASTES A FAERIE ROMANCE FOR MEN AND WOMEN
BY GEORGE MACDONALD
A new Edition, with thirty-three new Illustrations by Arthur Hughes;
edited by Greville MacDonald
"In good sooth, my masters, this is no door. Yet is it a little window,
that looketh upon a great world."

PREFACE
For offering this new edition of my father's Phantastes, my reasons are
three. The first is to rescue the work from an edition illustrated without
the author's sanction, and so unsuitably that all lovers of the book must
have experienced some real grief in turning its pages. With the
copyright I secured also the whole of that edition and turned it into pulp.
My second reason is to pay a small tribute to my father by way of
personal gratitude for this, his first prose work, which was published
nearly fifty years ago. Though unknown to many lovers of his greater
writings, none of these has exceeded it in imaginative insight and
power of expression. To me it rings with the dominant chord of his
life's purpose and work. My third reason is that wider knowledge and
love of the book should be made possible. To this end I have been most
happy in the help of my father's old friend, who has illustrated the book.
I know of no other living artist who is capable of portraying the spirit
of Phantastes; and every reader of this edition will, I believe, feel that
the illustrations are a part of the romance, and will gain through them
some perception of the brotherhood between George MacDonald and
Arthur Hughes.
GREVILLE MACDONALD. September 1905.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE MEETING OF SIR GALAHAD
AND SIX PERCIVALE SUDDENLY THERE STOOD ON THE
THRESHOLD A TINY WOMAN-FORM THE BRANCHES AND
LEAVES ON THE CURTAINS OF MY BED WERE IN MOTION I
SAW A COUNTRY MAIDEN COMING TOWARDS ME
TAILPIECE TO CHAPTER III HEADPIECE TO CHAPTER IV TWO
LARGE SOFT ARMS WERE THROWN AROUND ME FROM
BEHIND I GAZED AFTER HER IN A KIND OF DESPAIR I
FOUND MYSELF IN A LITTLE CAVE THE ASH SHUDDERED
AND GROANED TAILPIECE TO CHAPTER VI I COULD
HARDLY BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS A FAIRY LAND I DID
NOT BELIEVE IN FAIRY LAND A RUNNER WITH GHOSTLY
FEET THE MAIDEN CAME ALONG, SINGING AND

DANCING,HAPPY AS A CHILD THE GOBLINS PERFORMED
THE MOST ANTIC HOMAGE THE FAIRY PALACE IN THE
MOONLIGHT TOO DAZZLING FOR EARTHLY EYES IN THE
WOODS AND ALONG THE RIVER BANKS DO THE MAIDENS
GO LOOKING FOR CHILDREN SHE LAY WITH CLOSED EYES,
WHENCE TWO TEARS WERE FAST WELLING HEADPIECE TO
CHAPTER XIV I SPRANG TO HER, AND LAID MY HAND ON
THE HARP A WHITE FIGURE GLEAMED PAST ME, WRINGING
HER HANDS THEY ALL RUSHED UPON ME, AND HELD ME
TIGHT A WINTRY SEA, BARE, AND WASTE, AND GRAY
SHOW ME THE CHILD THOU CALLEST MINE THE TIME
PASSED AWAY IN WORK AND SONG HEADPIECE TO
CHAPTER XXI WE REACHED THE PALACE OF THE KING I
SAW, LEANING AGAINST THE TREE, A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN
FASTENED TO THE SADDLE, WAS THE BODY OF A GREAT
DRAGON I WAS DEAD, AND RIGHT CONTENT A VALLEY LAY
BENEATH ME
PHANTASTES A FAERIE ROMANCE
"Phantastes from `their fount all shapes deriving, In new habiliments
can quickly dight." FLETCHER'S Purple Island
{Below is raw OCR it has not been proofed as i cannot read it!} "Es
lassen sich Erzahlungen ohne Zusammenhang, jedoch mit Association,
wie Traume dengkeennohgneedizhusamdimenhang; jedoeh mit und
voll schoner Worte sind, aber auch ohne allen Sinn und
Zusammenhang, hochstens einzelne Strophen verstandlich, wie
Bruchstucke aus den verjschledenartigsten Dingen, Diese svahre Poesie
kann Wlrkung, wie Musik haben. Darum