Excerpt from Stella Maris The invention of this title must not be regarded as the supreme effort of the imagination of Walter Herold. It would have been Obvious to anybody with a' bowing acquaintance with the Latin tongue. Her name was Stella, and she passed her life by the sea - passed it away up on top Of a cliff on the South coast; passed it in one big, beautiful room that had big windows south and west; passed it in bed, flat on her back, with never an outlook on the outside world save sea and sky. And the curtains of the room were never drawn, and in the darkness a lamp always shone in the western window; so that Walter Herold, at the foot of the cliff, one night Of storm and dashing spray, seeing the light burning steadily like a star, may be excused for a bit Of confusion Of thought when he gripped his friend John Risca's arm with one hand and, pointing with the other, cried. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.