Artabanzanus

Artabanzanus  (1896)  by William Moore Ferrar

ARTABANZANUS:

The Demon of the Great Lake.

AN ALLEGORICAL ROMANCE OF TASMANIA.

Arranged from the Diary of the late Oliver Ubertus
BY
WILLIAM M. FERRAR.

Glendower.—I can call spirits from the vasty deep.  Hotspur.— Why so can I, or so can any man.  But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare.

LONDON:
ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
1896.

To

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR, M.P.,

THIS WORK

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY HIS OBEDIENT SERVANT,

THE EDITOR.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER		PAGE
	PROLOGUE	1
I.	LAKE SORELL AND THE GIANT'S CASTLE	7
II.	THE VAST CITY OF ETERNITY	18
III.	THE DEMON INTRODUCES HIMSELF	35
IV.	THE CITY OF PANDAPOLIS	41
V.	THE DEMON'S DAUGHTERS	56
VI.	A GRAND REVIEW	71
VII.	THE MILITARY HOSPITAL	85
VIII.	DOCTOR JULIUS	101
IX.	THE STAR OF VICTORY	116
X.	TALKS WITH THE DOCTOR	141
XI.	THE ENCHANTED HALL	156
XII.	THE COURT OF A GRAND POTENTATE	167
XIII.	THE STRANGER'S STORY	185
XIV.	THE PARLIAMENT OF PANDAPOLIS	206
XV.	THE DUEL	228
XVI.	OUR DEPARTURE	243
XVII.	THE DOCTOR'S APPARENT FATE	261
XVIII.	THE STORY OF HELEN AND JULIUS	276
XIX.	I LOSE THE GOOD DOCTOR	308
	EPILOGUE	311