Poison romance and poison mysteries / by C.J.S. Thompson.

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1899
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Credit: Poison romance and poison mysteries / by C.J.S. Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which will cause instantaneous death without leav- ing a trace behind. They describe anassthetics so powerful, that a whiff from a bottle is sufficient to produce immediate insensibility for any period desired. In fact, the novelist has a pharmacopoeia of his own. After all, why should we question or cavil, and wish to analyse it in the prosaic test- tube of modern science ; for take away the marvels and mysteries and you kill the romance. The novel performs its mission if it succeeds in interesting and amusing us, and the story-teller has accomplished the object of his art, when he is successful in weaving the possible with the impossible, so that we can scarce perceive it. That master of fiction, Dumas, gives us an instance of this, in his wonderfully fascinating adventures of the Count Monte Christo. Nothing seems impossible to this extraordinary individual, and incident after incident of the most romantic and exciting nature, crowd one upon another
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