Harper's New Monthly Magazine,  11 (1885–86), 211–16.

Hunting a Mythical Pall-bearer

Moncure D Conway

Genre:

Essay

Subjects:

Psychology, Error

Publications cited:

Cobbe 1867


    After reflecting on the former 'certainty that I had seen [...] in my boyhood' an inscription on a gravestone that is now known to be apocryphal, observes that 'such are the Fallacies of Memory, whereof Miss Cobbe has written cleverly' (211).



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