THE TRAGEDY OF LIFE: BEING RECORDS OF REMARKABLE PHASES OF LUNACY, KEPT BY A PHYSICIAN. BY JOHN H. BRENTEN. OUR towns and cities are but so many dwellings of human misery, in which grief IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: 250. b. 80. SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL. M.DCCC.LXI. [The right of Translation is reserved.] THE TRAGEDY OF LIFE. MAD OR NOT MAD? CHAPTER I. HOW THE RECTOR LIVED AND HOW HE DIED. "ON the 20th of last month, at the Rectory, much respected, the Rev. Louis Lackingham, aged 67, for many years Rector of Basset cum Wintleton"-When I was a boy, I used often to run my eye over the announcement of deaths in the columns of The Times, and consider with myself, in a desultory fashion, which of the various deceased parties were most to have been envied in their respective lives, and, in the case of an enforced exchange between their position VOL. I. 1 |