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A Biography Of The San Francisco Newspaperman And Author Of The Diamond Lens. ... Read more

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A Biography Of The San Francisco Newspaperman And Author Of The Diamond Lens. ... Read more

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THE DIAMOND LENS

By Fitz-James O'brien




I

FROM a very early period of my life the entire bent of my inclinations
had been toward microscopic investigations. When I was not more than
ten years old, a distant relative of our family, hoping to astonish my
inexperience, constructed a simple microscope for me by drilling in a
disk of copper a small hole in which a drop of pure water was sustained
by capillary attraction. This very primitive apparatus, magnifying some
fifty diameters, presented, it is true, only indistinct and imperfect
forms, but still sufficiently wonderful to work up my imagination to a
preternatural state of excitement.

Seeing me so interested in this rude instrument, my cousin explained to
me all that he knew about the principles of the microscope, related to
me a few of the wonders which had been accomplished through its agency,
and ended by promising to send me one regularly constructed, immediately
on his return to the city. I counted the days, the hours, the minutes
that intervened between that promise and his departure.

Meantime, I was not idle. Every transparent substance that bore the
remotest resemblance to a lens I eagerly seized upon, and employed
in vain attempts to realize that instrument the theory of whose
construction I as yet only vaguely comprehended. All panes of
glass containing those oblate spheroidal knots familiarly known as
"bull's-eyes" were ruthlessly destroyed in the hope of obtaining lenses
of marvelous power. I even went so far as to extract the crystalline
humor from the eyes of fishes and animals, and endeavored to press
it into the microscopic service. I plead guilty to having stolen the
glasses from my Aunt Agatha's spectacles, with a dim idea of grinding
them into lenses of wondrous magnifying properties--in which attempt it
is scarcely necessary to say that I totally failed.
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Compiled from the works of the finest masters of the genre, these tales of terror include Mary E. Wilkins’ "The Lost Ghost," Robert Louis Stevenson’s "The Body-Snatchers," "Mrs. Zant and the Ghost," by Wilkie Collins, and other gripping works by Charles Dickens, Henry James, J. S. LeFanu, Ralph Cram, Mrs. Henry Wood, Amelia Edwards, Fitz-James O’Brien, and M. R. James.
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During its all-too-brief run, SATELLITE published a complete novel in each issue. ~ ~~ ~ CONTENTS: NOVEL: The Wall Of Fire [Charles Eric Maine]; SHORT STORIES: The Tombling Day [Ray Bradbury]; How I Overcame My Gravity [Fitz-James O'Brien]; Collector's Item [Marion Zimmer Bradley]; ARTICLE: The Fabulous Fantast [Sam Moscowitz] ... Read more

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New York: The Bodleian Society 1902 HB 1st ed.limited to 1000 copies ... Read more

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Containing:
The Man Without A Country by Edward Everett Hale
Life in the Iron Mills by Miss R. B. Harding
My Double, and How He Undid Me by Edward Everett Hale
The Diamond Lens by Fitz James O'Brien
Friend Eli's Daughter by Bayard Taylor
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Undated. Haldeman-Julius Co. Blue pamphlet, No. 1155. Two Mysteries: The Lost Room, The Diamond Lens. ... Read more

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Undated paperback (c. 1919) with the classic horror tale The Diamond Lens by Fitz James O'Brien and Friend Eli's Daughter by Bayard Taylor. 93 pages ... Read more