How is one to know when such phrases may be used? If I could give you the answer to that question I should be also giving you the secret of making literature, and from all our talks I expect you have gathered this much at all events--that the art of literature, with all the arts, is quite incommunicable. Many kinds of artifice, even, are unteachable--I could not write or be taught to write one of those George Eliot novels that I have been abusing with such hearty good will--but art is by its very definition quite without the jurisdiction of the schools, and the realm of the reasoning process, since art is a miracle, superior to the laws. PRINTED BY TURNBULL AND SPEARS, EDINBURGH * * * * * TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES The variant spellings "bookcase" and "book-case", "bookmaking" and "book-making", "milk punch" and "milk-punch", "subconsciousness" and "sub-consciousness", "Morte D'Arthur" and "Morte d'Arthur" are all used in this text. There is no consistency in the use of italics, single quotes or double quotes. For example _Vanity Fair_, "Vanity Fair" and 'Vanity Fair' all appear. The spellings "gurgoyles" (p. 132), "insistance" (p. 196), "ecstasis" (p. 196) and "extravagancies" (p. 204) have been left unchanged. The following amendments have been made: 1)Full stop (period) added after "Sophocles" on p. 53, after "runs away" on p. 189 and after "Dr" in "Dr Johnson" on p. 193. 2) Full stop replaced by question mark after "unreal" on p. 214. 3) The accents on two Greek words on p. 56 have been amended: accent on ἀπαγγειλαι (where there was a circumflex over the ε in defiance of all laws) amended to ἀπαγγεῖλαι and πὰλιν amended to πάλιν. 4) The breathing on ἀιθέρος on p. 105 has been corrected to αἰθέρος. A Table of Contents has been added. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Hieroglyphics, by Arthur Machen