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Title: The Little Schoolmaster Mark
A Spiritual Romance

Author: J. H. Shorthouse

Release Date: August 10, 2010 [EBook #33401]

Language: English

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LITTLE SCHOOLMASTER MARK

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THE LITTLE SCHOOLMASTER MARK

A Spiritual Romance

BY J. H. SHORTHOUSE

AUTHOR OF 'JOHN INGLESANT'

London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1894

_Part I--First Edition, October 1883. Reprinted December 1883_

_Part II--First Edition, 1884. Reprinted twice February 1885_

_Complete Edition made up from parts 1885. Reprinted 1891, 1894_

_Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh._

PREFACE.

THE readers of German autobiography (and more delightful reading cannot
be had) will perceive that I have made use of some passages in the
childhood of Heinrich Jung-Stilling to create the character of Little
Mark. The experience of the Princess as to private religious societies
was also that of Stilling. Should this little tale induce any one, at
present ignorant of Stilling's Autobiography, to read that book, they
will forget any grudge they may have formed against the present writer.
As a matter of common honesty I should wish to express the pleasure I
have had in reading another delightful book, _Studies of the Eighteenth
Century in Italy_, by Vernon Lee.

The words of the anthem in the concluding chapter are taken from a
sermon by Canon Knox Little, "The Vision of the Truth," preached in St.
Paul's in Lent 1883, and published in _The Witness of the Passion_. They
are so exactly in accord with the message which the shadowy beings of my
tale seem to have left me that I cannot force myself to coin another
phrase.

J. H. S.