A Study in Sherlock Holmes

"My name

is Sherlock Holmes. It is my

business to know

what other people do not know."

"I have a trade ofmy own. I suppose I am the only one in

the world. I'm a

consulting detective.

Here in London wehave lots of

governmentdetectives and lots

of private ones.

When these fellows areat fault, they come tome, and I manage to putthem on the right scent. They lay all the evi-dence before me, and I am generally able, by the help of my knowl-edge of the history ofcrime, to set themstraight."

"Under such circumstances I

naturally gravitated to London, that greatcesspool into which all the loungers and idlers

of the Empire areirresistibly drained."

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and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition,the drowsiness of the drug,and the fierce energy ofhis own keen nature."

"Holmes,who loathed

every formof society

with hiswhole

Bohemian soul,

remained inour lodgings

in Baker Street,

buried among his old books,

possessing genius have

a remarkable power of

stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, thatI am very much inyour debt."

"It may be that you

are notyourself

luminous,but you are

a conductor of light. Some

people without

"I am lost without my Boswell."

"Like all other arts, the Science of

Deduction & Analysis is one which can only be

acquired by long and patient study nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the

highest possible perfection in it."

"It is a capital mistake totheorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist

facts to suit theories,instead of theories

to suit facts."

"I have been guiltyof several monographs.

They are all upon technicalsubjects. Here, for example, is one

'Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos'. In it I enumerate a hundred and forty

forms of cigar, cigarette, and pipe tobacco,with coloured plates illustrating the

difference in the ash."

"It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg

that you won't speak to me for fifty

minutes."

"'Which is it today,' I asked, 'morphine or cocaine?'

He raised his eyes languidly fromthe old black-leather volume which

he had opened.

'It is cocaine,' he said, 'a seven-per-cent solution.

Would you like to try it?'"

"There isnothing more to

be said or tobe done tonight,

so hand me overmy violin and let

us try to forget for half an hour the

miserable weather

and the still more miserable

ways of ourfellowmen."

"Draw yourchair up, and

hand me my violin, for the only problemwhich we have still to

solve is how to while away

these bleak autumnalevenings."

"He is a first-class chemist."

"Holmes was

working hard over a chemical investigation. A large

curved retort was boiling furiously over the bluish flame of a Bunsen

burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. He

dipped into this bottle or that, drawing out a few drops of each with his glass pipette, and finally brought a test-tube containing

a solution over to the table."

“To Sherlock

Holmes she is

always the woman.

I have seldom

heard him mention

her under any

other name."

"All emotions,

and that one

particularly, were

abhorrent to his

cold, precise but

admirably balanced

mind. He was, I take

it, the most perfect

reasoning and

observing machine

that the world

has seen."

"'Exactly, Watson.Here is the fruit of my

leisured ease, the magnumopus of my latter years.' He picked up the volume from the table and read outthe whole title,' Practical Handbook

of Bee Culture, with some Observations upon the Segregation ofthe Queen.' Alone I did it. Behold the fruit of

pensive nights and laborious days, when I watched the little working gangs as once I watched the criminal world of London.'"

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Winter 2014