Excerpt from Carmen Sylva: And Sketches From the Orient Uring my wanderings, I once chanced to spend a few days with a fairy, in an enchanted castle. The distant sound of a horn in the forest depths invariably brings back to my mind the most trivial incidents of this visit. The reason was that the fairy's castle lay in the very heart of a densely wooded forest in which the distant blasts of martial trumpets were constantly heard resounding on every side. There was a strange, weird melancholy of its own about the sound, resembling some magic call, in the vibrant air we breathed, - the silent, pure, invigorating air of the mountain peaks. 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.