In one Volume, 12mo.
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK.
“It is very clever and very entertaining—replete with pleasantry and humour: quite as imaginative as any German diablerie, and far more amusing than most productions of its class. It is a very whimsical and well devised jeu d’esprit.”—Literary Gazette.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
FIVE NIGHTS OF ST. ALBANS.
“Some man of talent has taken up the old story of the Wandering Jew, to try what he could make of a new version of it. He has succeeded in composing as pretty a piece of diablerie as ever made candles burn blue at midnight. The horrors of Der Freischutz are mere child’s play compared with the terrors of the Old Man or the demon Amaimon; and yet all the thinking and talking portion of the book is as shrewd and sharp as the gladiatorial dialogues of Shakspeare’s comedies.”—Spectator.
“A romance, called the ‘Five Nights of St. Albans,’ has just appeared, which combines an extraordinary power of description with an enchaining interest. It is just such a romance as we should imagine Martin, the painter, would write; and, to say the truth, the description of supernatural effects in the book, fall very little short in their operation upon different senses of the magical illusions of the talented artist.”—John Bull.
In Three Volumes, 12mo.
FRANCESCA CARRARA.
BY L. E. L.
Author of “The Improvisatrice,” “Romance and Reality,” &c.
“But in prose she lives with us: now sanctifying; now satirizing; now glittering with the French in their most brilliant court, playing with diamonds and revelling in wit; then reposing on one of the finest creations that human genius ever called into existence—the holy friendship of Guido and Francesca. The whole range of modern fiction offers nothing like the portraiture of these two cousins; it is at once beautiful and sublime, and yet perfectly natural and true.”—New Monthly Magazine.