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I think that my best apology for the insignificant size of this volume is the very character of the material composing it. In preparing the legends I sought especially for weird beauty; and I could not forget this striking observation in Sir Walter Scott's Essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad: "The supernatural, though appealing to certain powerful emotions very widely and deeply sown amongst the human race, is, nevertheless, a spring which is peculiarly apt to lose its elasticity by being too much pressed upon.
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Table of Contents
The soul of the great bell.
The story of Ming-Y.
The legend of Tchi-Niu.
The return of Yen-Tchin-King.
The tradition of the tea-plant.
The tale of the porcelain-god.
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Reprinted from the 1906 ed.
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