[120] Douglas Jerrold’s Shilling Magazine 1846.
[121] This preface is, strangely enough, not reprinted in the 1892 edition.
[122] Elton I, p. 219.
[123] Müller, p. 70.
[124] Die Rosenkreutzer formed a secret society founded in Germany in the 17:th century. Confessedly they aimed at bringing about certain reforms in Church and State, but the mystery in which they were shrouded gave rise, later, to the popular belief that they were chiefly occupied in alchemical pursuits. Among English writers interested in the ‘Rosecrucian idea’ were Godwin (St. Leon), Shelley (St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian, 1811), and Mary Shelley (Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, 1818).
[125] This story was published under the name of Lord Byron, who is said to have invented the idea.
[126] There existing a comparatively new and available edition of Melmoth the Wanderer, the contents of each tale is here given with the utmost brevity.
[127] Richter, p. 294; Scarborough p. 32.
[128] Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany 1821, vol. VIII p. 412.
[129] Edinburgh Review 1820, vol. XXXV p. 353.