Excerpt from Friends That Fail Not: Light Essays Concerning Books

A strange coincidence - to use a phrase

By which such things are settled nowadays. - Byron.

There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half-credence in the supernatural by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

- Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Roget.

It is a matter of common report that authors of a sluggish and sterile imagination are in the habit of searching for the plots of their novels in the pages of the Police News.

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