Restoring the Lost Sense

An illustration from an 1888 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from Gryll Grange by George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (1896).  The caption reads: "He was recalled to himself by sinking up to his shoulders in a hollow."

"Under the Mistletoe": an illustration from an 1885 issue of Little Wide Awake magazine.

An illustration from Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney (1909).

"Never shall I forget the repulsive sight that met my eye as I turned round."  From The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.

"Aurora transformed herself into a cavalier," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

"Somewhile in hell," from Broadway Ballads by Abel Reid (a.k.a. William James Linton), 1876.

"I conducted her to the chamber, and bade her look intently on the polished mirror of the wall," from The Sphinx-like Head by J. Harry Sugden, 1896.

From America Revisited by George Augustus Henry Fairfield, 1882.

An illustration from Svenska Minnen och Bilder by Nils Petrus Ödman (1899).

"It had come, the thing she asked, and now she could not face it; it was too much, too terrible."  From A Charge to Keep by P. A. Blyth, 1896.

"At the banquet the guests in amazement were lost," from The Lion's Masquerade, 1807.

"We have sealed the doom of the King of Spades," from The Trail of the Serpent by M. E. Braddon, 1861.  [For Gordon Meyer.]

From The Man in the Moon, Vol. IV.

"Counting up time—which is money," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.