An illustration from an 1869 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from an 1869 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from a 1909 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.

An illustration from a 1903 issue of The Idler magazine.  The caption reads: "Hello, ol' Never Sleep, that you?"

An illustration from a 1915 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.

An illustration from a 1912 issue of Scribner's magazine.  The caption reads: "'I don't want to be a descendant,' he said; 'I'd rather be an ancestor.'"

An illustration from Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome (1891).

An illustration from Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath by Ben Hecht.

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "High above the sea, the road leads you to this fairyland."

I-eye:  an illustration from Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome (1891).

An illustration from a 1905 issue of The Idler magazine.  The caption reads: "'Why hasn't Haunting told upon you?' I asked."

"Step by step, nearer, nearer, until he touched airy hands that clung, that drew him to the heart of mystery."  From Amélie Rives's The Ghost Garden, 1918.

Airy hands in the ghost garden.

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.

"The Crystal Evening": an illustration from a 1909 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.

An illustration from an 1898 issue of Scribner's magazine.  The caption reads: "The sense of infinity is heightened by the floating mist."

"Look there!"  From The Mystery of the Sycamore by Carolyn Wells (1921).

An illustration from an 1851 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome (1891).

No two are alike:  an illustration from Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath by Ben Hecht.

An illustration from Rhyme and Reason by Lewis Carroll (1884).