Excerpt from The Universal Anthology, Vol. 30: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Medieval and Modern, With Biographical and Explanatory Notes In all those early records, which every explorer and every flower gatherer on the fields of literature must broach, there are gods and demigods, fairies, spirits of evil and of good a Jupiter, a Pan, a Vulcan, an Eros, - these, or somewhat to correspond with these. So, too, there are courts of paradise. 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.