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After all, he regularly demanded the impossible of his engineers,his generals and his officers and he saw no reason to make an exception of hismagician. Strange made a small sound of exasperation as if this were a mostunreasonable request. I have refrained from certain spells, so that when I saw you I wouldbe in my right mind. What we fear is a great deal moremundane - in a word, revolution.

Perhaps you have come upon it by accident? he asked. n - an earl, a duke and two baronets - whocame, they said, to speak to him upon a matter of the utmost delicacyand were so discre John Murray, London, 181645Prologue to The History and Practice of English Magicby Jonathan StrangeIn the last months of 1110 a strange army appeared in NorthernEngland. One of the Ministers, who had never been in Mr Norrell's library before,made some admiring remark about its