The light beyond / by Maurice Maeterlinck ; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.Decorative Designers (Firm)Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-19211917Binding design, signed D[backward D], by Decorative Designers.Bookplate of Leonard and Lisa Baskin. Inscribed: A very Merry Christmas 1917 to Faith from Russell.Introduction -- Our injustice to death -- Annihilation -- Communications with the dead -- The fate of our consciousness -- Two aspects of infinity -- Our fate in those infinities -- Conclusions -- The knowledge of the future -- Heroism -- On rereading Thucydides -- The dead do not die. -- In memoriam -- The life of the dead -- The war and the prophets -- The will of earth -- When the war is over.The "essays ... are taken [from] Our eternity, The unknown guest and The wrack of the storm"--P. vii.Translated from the French.text