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{The non-english portions need proofing badly! i have neglected them for the most part. Chapter headers were italics as well and may yet have errors? Illustrations of the hardcopy intermingle with the text often, and so their markings are "rudely" placed mid-sentence in this etext as well within {} marks. my use of ?? marks are spots that need to be checked with another printing or edition as something *seems* missing but i cannot say what.... The poetry may have errors, particularly end of line punctuation.
Illustration captions removed from text but list at front is still there because of references to them in the preface.
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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 ist die Natur so rein poetisch wle die Stube eines Zauberers, eines Physikers, eine Kinderstube elne Polterund Vorrathskammer
"Ein Mahrchen ist wie ein Traumbild ohne Zusammenhang. Ein Ensemble wunderbarer Dinge und Begebenheiten, z. B. eine dMusNkalische Pbantasie, die harmonischen Folgen einer Aeolsharfe, die Natur slebst. . . . . . . . . . .
"In einem echten Mahrchen muss ailes wunderbar, geheimnissvoll undzusammenhangendsein; alles belebt, jeder auf eineandereArt Die ganze Natur muss wunderlich mit der ganzen Geisterwelt gemiseht sein; hier