. Books and bookmen ... Well, theseJapanese children, if they are in the least in-clined to be timid or nervous, must have anawful time of it at night in the dark, and whenthey make that eerie northwest passage bed-. 48 BOOKS AND BOOKMEN. wards through the darkling house of which sings the perils and the of us who did not suffer under parentsbrought up on the views of Mr. Herbert Spencerhave endured, in childhood, a good deal fromghosts. But it is nothing to what Japanesechildren bear ; for our ghosts are to the spectresof Japan as moonlight is to sunlight, or aswater
. Books and bookmen ... Well, theseJapanese children, if they are in the least in-clined to be timid or nervous, must have anawful time of it at night in the dark, and whenthey make that eerie northwest passage bed-. 48 BOOKS AND BOOKMEN. wards through the darkling house of which sings the perils and the of us who did not suffer under parentsbrought up on the views of Mr. Herbert Spencerhave endured, in childhood, a good deal fromghosts. But it is nothing to what Japanesechildren bear ; for our ghosts are to the spectresof Japan as moonlight is to sunlight, or aswater unto whisky. Personally I may saythat few people have been plagued by the terrorthat walketh in darkness more than myselfAt the early age of ten I had the tales of theingenious Mr. Edgar Poe and of CharlotteBronte put into my hands by a cousin whohad served as a Bashi Bazouk, and knew not themeaning of fear. But I did, and perhaps evenNelson would have found out what fear was,or the boy in the German tale would have learned to shiver, if he had been left aloneto peruse Jane Eyre, and the Black Cat,and the Fall of the House of Usher, as Iwas. Every night I expected to wake up in mycoffin, having been prematur
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