Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale

Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale

My editing of this most interesting story has been little more than proof-correction. On reading the manuscript in advance of the type-setting I soon found it safer to leave the author's style to take care of itself, sure that it will strike the public, as it struck me, with renewed respect and admiration for one who, sightless, can excel so many of us having all the senses. It is touching to observe how the blind narrator dwells on outward things,color, light and shade, sunset skies, human features and expressions,which must come to her only in imagination. She seems to dwell with peculiar intensity on a world of beauty which we others, sated by abundance, pass by unrecorded if not unnoticed. Sightless she is not, for in her the mind's eye is of a brilliancy that seems to make our mere physical vision useless by comparison. Better the soul's sight without eyes, than the eyesight without soul. Joseph Kirkland. [10] [11] We would be pleased to have the reading public patronize "Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale," because of the benefit to the author, "The Blind Bard of Michigan," and for the pleasure it will give the following gentlemen and firms, who have freely and generously given their time to the production of the work: Major Joseph Kirkland, editor; G. M. D. Libby, printer; L. Braunhold, artist; A. Zeese & Co., electrotypers, and Donohue & Henneberry, binders. But the best reason for buying will be found in the charming story itself. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 35765
Author: Glenwood, Ida
Release Date: Apr 4, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Kirkland, Joseph, 1830-1894