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A BIOGRAPHICAL ROMANCE.
A PROFESSOR OF ALCHEMY (Denis Zachaire).
“A clever story.... The hero is an alchemist who actually succeeds in manufacturing pure gold.”—Court Journal.
“Shadowy and dream-like.”—Athenæum.
“An interesting and pathetic picture.”—Literary World.
“The story is utterly tragical, and is powerfully told.”—Westminster Review.
“A vivid picture of those bad old times.”—Knowledge.
“Sure of a special circle of readers with congenial tastes.”—Graphic.
“This is a story of love—of deep, undying, refining love—not without suggestions of Faust. The figure of Berengaria, his wife, is a noble and touching one, and her purity and sweetness stand out in beautiful relief from the gloom of the alchemist’s laboratory and the horrors of the terrible Inquisition into whose hands she falls. The romance of the crucible, however, is not all permeated by sulphurous vapours and tinged with tartarean smoke. There is often a highly dramatic element.”—Glasgow Herald.