LITTLE CLASSICS EDITED BY ROSSITER JOHNSON STORIES OF INTELLECT [Illustration: colophon] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1914 COPYRIGHT, 1874, BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED [Illustration: text decoration] CONTENTS. PAGE THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN _E. Bulwer Lytton_ 7 D’OUTRE MORT _Harriet Prescott Spofford_ 60 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER _Edgar Allan Poe_ 91 CHOPS THE DWARF _Charles Dickens_ 118 WAKEFIELD _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 134 MURDER, CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS _Thomas De Quincey_ 147 THE CAPTAIN’S STORY _Rebecca Harding Davis_ 187 [Illustration: text decoration] [Illustration: text decoration] THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN. BY E. BULWER LYTTON. A friend of mine, who is a man of letters and a philosopher, said to me one day, as if between jest and earnest, “Fancy! since we last met I have discovered a haunted house in the midst of London.” “Really haunted? and by what,--ghosts?” “Well, I can’t answer these questions; all I know is this: six weeks ago I and my wife were in search of a furnished apartment. Passing a quiet street, we saw on the window of one of the houses a bill, ‘Apartments Furnished.’ The situation suited us; we entered the house, liked the rooms, engaged them by the week, and left them the third day. No power on earth could have reconciled my wife to stay longer; and I don’t wonder at it.” “What did you see?”