"The Lords of the Ghostland" from Edgar Saltus. American writer (1855-1921).

"The Pace That Kills" from Edgar Saltus. American writer (1855-1921).

"The Paliser Case" from Edgar Saltus. American writer (1855-1921).

"The Perfume of Eros A Fifth Avenue Incident" from Edgar Saltus. American writer (1855-1921).

"The Philosophy of Disenchantment" from Edgar Saltus. American writer (1855-1921).

"The Truth About Tristrem Varick" from Edgar Saltus. American writer (1855-1921).

The ideal is the essence of poetry. In the virginal innocence of the world, poetry was a term that meant discourse of the gods. A world grown grey has learned to regard the gods as diseases of language. Conceived, it may be, in fevers of fancy, perhaps, originally, they were but deified words. Yet, it is as children of beauty and of dream that they remain.

"Three to one on Scarlet " Throughout the brand-new circus were the eagerness, the gesticulations, shouts, and murmurs of an impatient throng. On a ledge above the entrance a man stood, a strip of silk extended in his finger-tips. Beneath, on either side, were gates. About him were series of ascending tiers, close-packed, and brilliant with multicolored robes and parasols. The sand of the track was very white: where the sunlight fell it had the glitter of broken glass. In the centre was a low wall; at one end were pillars and seven great balls of wood; at the other, seven dolphins, their...

When the murder was done and the heralds shouted through the thick streets the passing of Caesar, it was the passing of the republic they announced, the foundation of Imperial Rome.

Edgar Evertson Saltus was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style.