By E. W. Hornung, John Kendrick Bangs
This significant compilation of Raffles works offers 26 brief stories—all the stories from the unique three collections, The novice Cracksman, The Black masks, and A Thief within the Night—plus the unconventional Mr. Justice Raffles. additionally integrated are 20 extra, similar tales by means of E.W. Hornung and John Kendrick Bangs (including the adventures of Raffles' son), plus introductions, ebook covers, and notes. even if you're a longtime fan of the "amateur cracksman" or a newcomer to E.W. Hornung's vintage gentleman-thief, you'll locate whatever new and enjoyable during this volume!
incorporated are:
THE IDES OF MARCH
a dressing up PIECE
gents AND PLAYERS
LE greatest PAS
WILFUL MURDER
9 issues OF THE LAW
THE go back MATCH
THE present OF THE EMPEROR
NO SINECURE
A JUBILEE PRESENT
THE destiny OF FAUSTINA
THE final LAUGH
TO seize A THIEF
AN previous FLAME
the incorrect HOUSE
THE KNEES OF THE GODS
OUT OF PARADISE
THE CHEST OF SILVER
the remainder CURE
THE CRIMINOLOGISTS' CLUB
the sphere OF PHILLIPI
a nasty NIGHT
A capture TO trap A CRACKSMAN
THE SPOILS OF SACRILEGE
THE RAFFLES RELICS
THE final WORD
MR. JUSTICE RAFFLES
A VOICE within the WILDERNESS
THE BLACK gap OF GLENRANALD
"TO THE VILE DUST"
A BUSHRANGER AT BAY
THE TAKING OF STINGAREE
the honour OF THE ROAD
THE PURIFICATION OF MULFERA
A DUEL within the DESERT
THE VILLAIN-WORSHIPPER
THE MOTH AND THE STAR
the journey OF THE DORRINGTON RUBY SEAL
the journey OF MRS. BURLINGAME'S DIAMOND STOMACHER
the journey OF THE lacking PENDANTS
the journey OF THE BRASS CHECK
the journey OF THE employed BURGLAR
THE REDEMPTION OF younger BILLINGTON RAND
THE NOSTALGIA OF NERVY JIM THE SNATCHER
the journey OF ROOM 407
THE MAJOR-GENERALS PEPPER-POTS
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How am I to prove now that "Here's one hand, and here's another"? I do not believe I can do it. In order to do it, I should need to prove for one thing, as Descartes pointed out, that I am not now dreaming. But how can I prove that I am not? I have, no doubt, conclusive reasons for asserting that I am not now dreaming; I have conclusive evidence that I am awake: but that is a very different thing from being able to prove it. I could not tell you what all my evidence is; and I should require to do this at least, in order to give you a proof.
Without a demonstration that Descartes's philosophical investigation differs from our ordinary assessments in some way that prevents its negative conclusion from having the kind of significance similar conclusions are rightly taken to have in everyday life, we can derive no consolation from the ungrounded idea that the reality from which he shows our knowledge is excluded does not or should not concern us anyway. It is the investigation of his everyday knowledge, and not merely the fanciful picture of a veil of perception, that generates Descartes's negative verdict.
It certainly would not follow that I am not standing up; for it is certainly logically possible that a man should be fast asleep and dreaming, while he is standing up and not lying down. It is therefore logically possible that I should both be standing up and also at the same time dreaming that I am; just as the story, about a well-known Duke of Devonshire, that he once dreamt that he was speaking in the House of Lords and, when he woke up, found that he was speaking in the House of Lords, is certainly logically possible.
