A Syrup of the Bees

"A Syrup of the Bees" is a touching fantasy novel by Francis William Bain (1863 –1940), a British writer famous for his captivating fantasy stories.

Excerpt

"The Young Barbarians, when Rome's ecclesiastical polity got hold of them, were persuaded by their anxious foster-mother to sell their Scandinavian birthright of imagination for an unintelligible, theopathic mess of mystic Græco-Syrian pottage. But the «demons,» though driven generally from the field, lurked about in holes and corners, watching their opportunity. They took refuge in bypaths, leaving the high road: they lay in ambush in a thicket, whence nothing ever could dislodge them: that of fairy tales and fables."