THE IVORY GATE
Sunt geminæ Somni portæ: quarum altera fertur
Cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris:
Altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto:
Sed falsa ad cælum mittunt insomnia manes.
Virgil, Æn. VI.
NOTE.
After this novel was commenced in Chambers's Journal it was discoveredthat the title had already been used by the late Mr. Mortimer Collins,for a novel published in the year 1865. The Author communicated with Mr.Collins's representatives, and has to thank them for making noopposition to the use of this title.
THE IVORY GATE
BY
WALTER BESANT
AUTHOR OF 'ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN' ETC.
A NEW EDITION
London
CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1893
TO
S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, ESQ., M.D.
My dear Sprigge,
Since it was you who first instructed me in the existenceof the brain disease which forms the motif of this story,and furnished me with such illustrations of its working asenabled me to write the story, I am in honour bound to makethe most public acknowledgment possible of this fact.
I therefore beg to inscribe your name on the title page ofthis volume in grateful recognition of an obligation whichis not by any means discharged by such recognition. I amalso moved to do so in remembrance of another kind of workin which I have been so fortunate as to have your invaluablecollaboration.
Very sincerely yours,
WALTER BESANT.
United University Club, S.W.
September 12, 1892.