# Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 11, Vol. I, March 15, 1884

Author: Various

Genre: Category: Journalism/Media/Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65209

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Chambers%27s+Journal+of+Popular+Literature%2C+Science%2C+and+Art%2C+Fifth+Series%2C+No.+11%2C+Vol.+I%2C+Various&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

By firelight, the children had heard a traveller’s tale about the mirage of the desert—the distant vision of tufted palms and green herbage, the promise of water, and shade, and rest. They had heard how the delusion flies, baffling pursuit, always seeming to stand at an attainable distance across the hot sands, always infinitely far, till it fades, because on their path it has no tangible existence. It is the delusive image of something existing elsewhere, and elsewhere perhaps unasked and uncared for by others, who reckon the oasis worth but little when their ambition is restless for the object of their journey.

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-fifth-dc3ef129/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-fifth-dc3ef129/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-fifth-dc3ef129/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-fifth-dc3ef129/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-fifth-dc3ef129/chapters/5/index.md)